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Re:Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times by Tistron on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:08AM (#22875317)
Yes, it's on Windows I have experienced this issue.

I'm not familiar with the low level mechanics of this but you seem to be. How would it work to do what you write at the end? Isn't altGr just an easier way of typing ctrl+alt? Getting ctrl+[ would then be ctrl+ctrl+alt+9. Or is it a proper key of its own?

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Re:Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times by kps on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:58AM (#22879293)
AltGraph is physically the key that is right-Alt on US keyboards. My understanding is that Windows has Ctrl+Alt as an alternative because some long ago PS/2 keyboards didn't distinguish the two Alt, so it wouldn't be able to take the same approach.
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