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Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update
- From: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x at att dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:02:59 +0000
- Subject: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update
My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to get everything I had reinstalled. After I reinstalled Cygwin (now at 1.7.17), I'm seeing some problems starting up Cygwin tools. I don't see anything specifically about this in the FAQ.
I normally run "C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login" from a shortcut for a shell outside of Emacs. When I do this now, it looks ok, but I'm now finding that the Backspace key just moves the cursor forward one character, not deleting the previous character.
I have another shortcut for "C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe -display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login". This behaves the same as the previous with respect to Backspace. "mintty" does the same.
The Emacs shell is fine.
My CYGWIN variable is just set to "nodosfilewarning".
Pressing Ctl-v followed by backspace gets "^H".
This is the output of "stty":
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
erase = ^H; swtch = <undef>;
I compared my ~/.inputrc with /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc and there were only differences in comments.
What other information would be relevant?
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