Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/21/09:10:53
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tackett, Galen wrote:
> > If you are not totally happy about the 'stty erase blah' approach to
> > solving your problem, you could try adding the switch '-backspacekey
> > ^H' to your rxvt command line, so that it reads <something like>
>
> > C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 80x58+0+0 -tn cygwin -backspacekey ^H -e /bin/bash --login -i
>
> I hope this won't be just reiterating something everyone already knew, but--
>
> If you'd like to shorten up that command line you can also put the following
> in ~/.Xdefaults:
>
> *backspacekey: ^H
>
> (The asterisk is required.)
>
> Here's an excerpt from the rxvt manpage:
>
> --begin excerpt--
>
> backspacekey: string
> The string to send when the backspace key is
> pressed. If set to DEC or unset it will send
> Delete (code 127) or, if shifted, Backspace (code
> 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC
> private mode escape sequence.
>
> --end excerpt--
>
> For fuller documentation of rxvt (including many more resource settings)
> take a look at:
>
> http://www-ucjf.troja.mff.cuni.cz/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=/usr/share/man/man1/rxvt.1.gz
Does this mean the rxvt termcap/terminfo entries are incorrect? If rxvt
sends ^? for backspace by default, shouldn't the termcap/terminfo entries
reflect that and interpret ^? as <backspace>? If this only happens in
W11 mode, should the rxvt-cygwin-native entry be corrected?
Igor
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