Rterm.exe stops responding to keyboard input

Hi,

this sounds awfully similar to what I reported in r-help thread '[R]
Windows Vista, Rterm & LeftAlt + Tab issue' on Aug 21, 2008, cf.

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-August/171548.html

At least we are not alone ;)  ...and I though it was an issue with
Windows Vista only, because I didn't notice any problem with Windows
XP Pro I had before.  It might have been that I only had SP 2 (I
think), so it may be related to post-SP 2 updates that are also
included in Vista.

In Windows, you can shift between applications using either
LeftAlt+TAB or RightAlt+TAB, but I discovered that the freezing
problem only occurred with LeftAlt+TAB, which is the combination I use
most frequently.  I ended up remapping the physical left-most Alt key
(on a US keyboard) to signal Right Alt (and vice versa for the
right-most Alt key).  I used KeyTweak
[http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/] do this.  Since then I've
forgot about the issue, so I guess it works to circumvent the problem.

Let us know if this solves your problem

Henrik

I've been trying to use Rterm.exe, mainly because of Rgui.exe's lack of
support for incremental history searching. But on my system (Win XP, SP3),
it (rterm from R-2.8.1) frequently just stops responding to keyboard input.
This happens often (enough to make it unusable), and generally after a
switch to another window. It doesn't seem to hang exactly, as if I leave it
a while (minutes) it sometimes starts responding again. It isn't using any
CPU to speak of whilst being mute.

Anyone else know of this?

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