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From:	Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:06:55 -0700
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On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and 
> start a new shell (bash again) from it.  Of course, the parent shell 
> outputs ^? for any press of backspace.  This behavior is the same for 
> bash started from a command prompt and from mintty.
An stty -a shows erase = ^h. Mintty is set to send ^h when the backspace 
character is pressed. At the bash command line backspace works as 
expected, the previous character is erased. However, if I do less <file> 
backspace does not behave properly or at least... Wait! I'm seeing 
something here.

I get this problem with Console - another, non-Cygwin terminal emulator 
and I see this problem with gnome-terminal. I don't see this problem 
with mintty.

Any idea of how to fix this for say gnome-terminal? Surely there are 
some out there who use regular Linux and gnome-terminal and ssh to 
Cygwin boxes...
> Beyond personal preference, is there a reason that you don't just take 
> the default (i.e. don't set stty erase)?  That works for me.
Ah, cause I want a backspace to backspace? :confused:

Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one space 
and to erase the previous character, like, for example, the less man 
page says it's supposed to.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
I took an IQ test and the results were negative.


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