PuTTY bug lineedit-ctrlm-ctrlj

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summary: Ctrl-M and Ctrl-J weren't equivalent to pressing Return in terminal line editing
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
present-in: 0.82
fixed-in: 363debc7f09791a905b94dd6cae96328210ca742 (0.83)

In PuTTY 0.81 and before, when entering a username, password or passphrase at authentication prompts in the terminal, you could end the line and send whatever you had typed by pressing any of Return, Ctrl-M and Ctrl-J. They all did the same thing.

In PuTTY 0.82, only Return worked: ^M and ^J accidentally stopped working. This turned out to break "PuTTY Connection Manager", which apparently auto-fills authentication responses by sending keystrokes to the PuTTY window, and sends one of ^M and ^J instead of Return.

We've put this back the way it was, so we hope that PuTTY Connection Manager will start working again.


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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-12-20 13:20:02 +0000)