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On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in > >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... > > This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program > that is tolerant of the two different ways of saying 'backspace'. > > If your 'erase' stty variable isn't set correctly, a number of things > fail to deal with backspace correctly. For just one example, password > entry when ssh'ing to another machine requires a correct 'erase' setting. Yes. Did you notice what I said? It's set automatically correctly for rxvt and the cygwin console and xterm if you *don't* touch it in /etc/profile. Can we stop this discussion and just do it right in /etc/profile by just not setting it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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