shift+" and others send Ctrl-C

[eppe...@gmail.com]

Maybe a dumb question but I didn't find anything about it. This is on a german system with a german keyboard and cygwin on Win7.

I have the strange behavior if I enter e.g. Shift+" to insert a double quote character mintty shows me this:

Epperlein@Epp ~

$ ^C

Epperlein@Epp ~

$ "

So I can't enter such a quote sign. The workaround is to use the caps lock key, but this rather inconvenient.
The same is with a singe quote and braces like "({[", the curly brace and the square bracket are reachable with AltGr on this keyboard, for the round brackets the shift key is needed.

Any ideas? Is it a mintty issue or is it related to cygwin?

Regards
Lutz

[Andy Koppe]

On May 7, 8:48 am, epperl...@gmail.com wrote:
> Maybe a dumb question but I didn't find anything about it. This is on a
> german system with a german keyboard and cygwin on Win7.
>
> I have the strange behavior if I enter e.g. Shift+" to insert a double
> quote character mintty shows me this:
>
> Epperlein@Epp ~
> $ ^C
>
> Epperlein@Epp ~
> $ "
>
> So I can't enter such a quote sign. The workaround is to use the caps lock
> key, but this rather inconvenient.
> The same is with a singe quote and braces like "({[", the curly brace and
> the square bracket are reachable with AltGr on this keyboard, for the round
> brackets the shift key is needed.

I'm afraid I've got no idea what could be going on there. This doesn't
happen for me if I change my layout to German, and I expect mintty has
a fair few German users, with no previous reports like this.

Have you got any utilities such as AutoHotKey running that could be
playing a role in this? Any keyboard mappings in your ~/.inputrc or
other config files that could be going wrong?

Regards,
Andy