Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly

[jon wild <wild at fas dot harvard dot edu>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, jon wild wrote:
> >
> > I'm running cygwin under win98 and every time I type the double-quote
> > character in the cygwin shell, the very next character I type will cause a
> > second double-quote to appear before the character typed, and I'll get a
> > system beep. I am spared the beep if I type the same character a second
> > time myself. This happens with a few other non-alphabetic characters as
> > well (off the top of my head: single quote, backtick, tilde). I've learned
> > to type these characters twice, followed by the backspace key to get rid
> > of the one I didn't want, and this way I avoid the irritating beep, but I
> > guess there is probably a better solution...
> 
> Hmm, does this also happen in 'sh' and 'tcsh', or is this bash-specific?

Happens in sh and tcsh too.

> If the latter, I'd suspect something screwed up with your readline
> bindings (e.g., ~/.inputrc, or just look at the output of "bind -S" and
> "bind -P" in bash).  For more information, see "info readline".

"bind -P" doesn't mention those keys being bound to anything.

In response to another poster, the problem does not occur in the DOS 
command shell, or in notepad, but is restricted to the cygwin shell. Oh 
and I notice that if I follow the double-quote (or one of the other 
misbehaved characters) with a space, then I get a second appearance of the 
first character, no beep, and no space--just as if I typed the second 
character myself.

Ah. I just noticed if I type any vowel after the double-quote, absolutely 
nothing will happen. No second double-quote appears, no beep, and no 
whatever-vowel-I-typed. Which means it must be something to do with those 
international characters with diacritical marks, and there's something 
about that in the FAQ. I'll look.

Thanks --Jon


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