Re: Arrow Keys & Bash Shortcuts do not work

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 04:10:58PM +0530, Ajay Jain wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am in a fix. My arrow keys (left, right, up, down, Alt-F, Alt-B,
>Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N ) do not work.
>
>What should I do? I tried looking on the net, but there is no clear way out.
>
>Then I opened cygiwn (c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat).
>
>I did the following:
>
>cygcheck -k
>
>Left Arrow - Pressed  1x VK: 0x25 VS: 0x4b A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- --
>-- -- -- -- --
>Released 1x VK: 0x25 VS: 0x4b A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>Right Arrow - Pressed  1x VK: 0x27 VS: 0x4d A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- --
>-- -- -- -- --
>Released 1x VK: 0x27 VS: 0x4d A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>Up Arrow - Pressed  1x VK: 0x26 VS: 0x48 A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- -- --
>-- -- -- --
>Released 1x VK: 0x26 VS: 0x48 A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>Down Arrow - Pressed  1x VK: 0x28 VS: 0x50 A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- --
>-- -- -- -- --
>Released 1x VK: 0x28 VS: 0x50 A: 0x00 CTRL: -- EK -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>
>Then I pressed Ctrl-V Left Arrow, Ctrl-V Right Arrow, Ctrl-V Up Arrow,
>Ctrl-V Bottom Arrow and I get:
>
>^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[B
>
>What should I do? I expect that the keys should work out of box.

Nothing above illustrates the arror keys not working.

Please follow the instructions here:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

We will need cygcheck output but you also need to consider that we don't
know what you mean by "do not work".

As a wild guess, however, it sounds like you have improperly set your
TERM environment variable.

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