[Aptitude-devel] Bug#607118: Bug#607118: Bug#607118: aptitude: after 'q' is cancelled with ctrl-q, it doesn't work again

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-09-07 10:02 Axel Beckert:
>Control: tag -1 = confirmed
>Control: found -1 0.7.1-1
>Control: retitle -1 aptitude: after 'q' is cancelled with ctrl-g once, it doesn't work again
>
>Hi,
>
>Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>> 2010-12-14 20:22 Andrew Pimlott:
>> > Package: aptitude
>> > Version: 0.6.3-3.2
>> > Severity: minor
>> >
>> > Start aptitude.  Hit 'q', and the dialog "Really quit Aptitude? [n]y"
>> > appears.  Hit <ctrl-g> to cancel, and the dialog is dismissed.  Hit 'q'
>> > again, and nothing happens.
>
>Thanks a lot for that hint! I wondered for years what's the condition
>under which "q" stops working. You found it!
>
>> (note: title says Ctrl-q, not Ctrl-g)
>
>Fixed.
>
>> I cannot reproduce this with 0.7.1-1,
>
>I can.
>
>> Unless it is a difference between i386 and amd64 systems, I wonder if it
>> was just a temporary glitch, or if it was fixed in some way.
>
>I can reproduce it on an uptodate Sid amd64.

That's odd, I cannot reproduce it (also unstable and amd64).

I press 'q', dialog appears, with Ctrl-g disappears, with 'q' appears
again, repeatedly without problems; and I don't get missing key presses
when moving to Yes/No in the dialog buttons or any other observable
misbehaviour.

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>