Re: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-21 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
There may be some other key or key combination on the left side of the keyboard that's doing this also. While the tab key can reproducibly cause it, some other key combination might also. Since my bash version is Jan 27, 2017 and none of my .bash scripts have changed recently, xterm (Sep 20,

Re: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-19 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 19:23, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2020-10-18 12:07, Frank Eske via Cygwin wrote: > > If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on > > an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but > > doesn't unlock it. This doesn't

Re: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-10-18 12:07, Frank Eske via Cygwin wrote: > If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on > an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but > doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a > space is typed

xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-18 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a space is typed first. This occurs whether or not the xterm console is