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Re: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)
- From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 at hotmail dot com>
- To: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:57:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)
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Hi,
Regarding rxvt and ^H verses ^? a better solution
is to start rvxt with a command line that includes
the option -backspacekey ^H rather than use stty.
You can do this in a windows shortcut and also in
a shell alias.
I also have a file in my home directory called .inputrc which
is used to configure the key used by bash, ftp, and some other
programs, I use the following entries (literal text) which mean
I can use the delete key as well as the backspace key, and other
keys, try it and see
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line
"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
The convert-meta and output-meta settings are used so I
can use the (£) UK pound symbol. I am in the UK and have
a UK keyboard.
I hope this is helpful.
/John Vincent.
From: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:06:40 +1000 (EST)
Suggestion: include a shortcut for rxvt as well as for Cygwin, as part
of setup.exe?
rxvt is an excellent replacement for the Windows command window -
except that programs like vi seem to be expecting ^H for backspace,
whereas the key is actually sending a Del (^?), it seems.
The solution seems simple: just execute stty -erase ^?.
So, I have set up a shortcut for rxvt:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sk -title rxvt -e bash --login
and modified my .profile to include:
if [ "$COLORTERM" = "rxvt-xpm" ]
then
stty erase ^?
fi
That covers everything except rxvt windows started from the command
line. Does anyone know why rxvt has this ^H vs ^? behaviour, and xterm
doesn't?
luke
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