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Re: Backspace


On Jun 20 22:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >>Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards
> >>one space and to erase the previous character, like, for
> >>example, the less man page says it's supposed to.
> >Now methinks you're just being obtuse.
> I'm not trying to be obtuse. I just want backspace to do a backspace.
> >Let me restate what I see in my environment.  Erase is set as ^?
> >but I didn't set it anywhere.  So to my way of thinking, this is
> >the default.
> Makes sense.
> >This makes me think that maybe you have erase set to ^H somewhere?
> Yes, I set it in my ~/.bashrc. Because I believe that big backspace
> key that I love to hit sent C-h.
> >What does your .minttyrc look like?
> As I said before "I get this problem with Console - another,
> non-Cygwin terminal emulator and
> I see this problem with gnome-terminal. I don't see this problem
> with mintty". As such I'm not sure how .minttyrc applies here...
> >Other resource files?
> Which would you like?
> 
> I think you missed the part where I said "I don't see this problem
> with mintty". I see the problem when I use Console (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/) a non-cygwin terminal
> emulator that I use because it handle's Windows /dev/conin and
> /dev/conout better than Cygwin. I also see this problem when I use
> my home Ubuntu system's gnome-terminal coupled with an ssh to Cygwin
> running in a Windows 7 VM in my LAN.
> 
> I found where I can tell gnome-terminal to use C-h for backspace.
> Thanks - that problem is solved. I need to talk to the developer of
> Console to ask him about why Console was not honoring it's
> "Backspace == Control-H setting". And how he handles /dev/conin &
> conout so that perhaps mintty could be made better (Basically
> Windows programs like say cleartool and ActiveState Perl work with
> Console - i.e. typing cleartool will show you the cleartool problem.
> I think he's running a hidden cmd shell... anyways)

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H.
The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal
emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by the backspace
key, and stty erase is by default set to ^? as well, usually.  Why don't
you just use the default?


Corinna

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