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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon chzyer

Windows: Alt-Tab makes the `Alt` modifier sticky.

Open abourget opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

In a simple app, using Alt tab seems to send the alt signal to readline, which switches to "Esc" mode.. but hitting Alt+Tab to switch, prevents the key release event to go through. So when we come back to the app, hitting d for example, calls DeleteWord or something.

Is there any way we could make sure to depress the alt, or release it after a given amount of time, or anything that wouldn't put the readline lib into an "always alt+" mode ?

abourget avatar Aug 02 '16 17:08 abourget

You are right. Thanks for catch that.

chzyer avatar Aug 03 '16 01:08 chzyer

A lot of users of my application are annoyed by this. Any way to turn of alt completely or something, for now?

Great work on the package though, it's fantastic :smile:

jD91mZM2 avatar Apr 18 '17 08:04 jD91mZM2