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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote: > On 5/28/2009 10:02 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> There's an ancient and pointless argument about whether the Backspace >> key should send ^H (0x08) or ^? (0x7F). > > I was asking something slightly different: No, you were asking the same thing, you just didn't grok part of the answer= ... > Can cygwin terminals be > configured so that emacs can tell the difference between the Backspace key > and "pressing h while holding down the control key"? "pressing h while holding down the control key" produces ^H (0x08). By default, this is also what backspace sends. As Andy says, many (all?) cygwin terminals can be set up to send ^? (0x7F) instead, leaving ^H to only be used by Ctrl+H > I've searched the cygwin mailing list archives, and the question has been > asked before. =C2=A0The answer in the past has always been No. > > If the answer is indeed no, then I'll have to see if there's a way to cha= nge > the emacs splash screen so that it offers F1 as the help key instead of C= -h. > =C2=A0I can also try the emacs-devel list; Cygwin can't be the only platf= orm > where this is an issue. Like Andy said, this would also be an issue on the default configuration of any of the RedHat derived Linuxes. ~Matt -- 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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