Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/09/14/15:22:04
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:22:55 Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 12:03 PM 9/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> bind -p | less
>>says that clear screen is bound to "\C-l"
>>When I type "\C-l", the screen spaces down one line, and copies the current
>>line to the new line.
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>>I tried to bind ESC to kill-whole-line, with
>>bind ESC kill-whole-line
>>but this did not work. The escape key now generates a beep.
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>>I would like to bind the DEL key to right arrow, backspace, to mimick
>>the functionality of DOS, but I can't figure this out.
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>>Could some one help me to:
>>1) figure out how to clear the screen
>>2) figure out how to kill the current command
>>3) use the delete key to delete the character over the curser
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>>Thanks in Advance,
>>
>>Clark Sims
>>
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>Do you have CYGWIN set to tty? Sounds like you don't. That's probably what
I have tried info tty and looking in the index of "Learning the bash Shell" but I can't figure out what you mean. The command tty tells what type of terminal I am using. Appearently I am using
/dev/conin
>you want to get more tty-like behavior. Read the caveats of working with
I can't find where to read about this.
>tty mode set and DOS programs though. You might fare better with a newer
I should have mentioned I was working with bash version 2.02.1(2) from Cygwin 20.1. I believer this is the newest version.
Thanks,
Clark
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