Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/25/18:12:24
Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration
Bash:
http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash
Background on this can be read at:
http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
>From: "Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net>
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>Subject: bash and the delete key
>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:01:07 -0400
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>Cygwin's bash seems not to interpret the delete key correctly. The
>backspace key nukes the character behind the cursor, as expected. The
>del key doesn't nuke the character ahead of the curser however. It
>inserts a tilde instead. I assume this is something related to either
>a bash setting or a terminal setting, but I ran out of clues (read:
>relevant information in obvious places in the bash man page) without
>fixing it a while back.
>
>I might also note that the gmane news server has not been a success
>for me. I tried to get at these lists as apparently gatewayed there,
>and did the news server's registration thing, but after days of xnews
>reporting zero new articles and my own posting-attempt (on that cron
>problem, and which also was used to trigger the registration process)
>not showing up I gave up on gmane. Obviously something went wrong --
>either it's down, or it's allergic to my news client, or the
>registration silently failed in some way and didn't bother to produce
>an error message and information on how to fix the problem. The
>registration confirm message did show up nearly immediately at my
>Hotmail account when I sent the cron related post, and I followed its
>instructions within the hour, so I definitely did nothing obviously
>wrong or clueless...
>
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