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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:06:40 +1000 (EST)
From:	luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject:	Promoting rxvt (non-X11)
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Message-Id:	<20020923000558.0819858D4@ivory.research.canon.com.au>

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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