Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: tcsh Win2000: command line editing does not work References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010315162012.027de478@pop.atg.com> <20010315231508.A17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Kazuhiro Fujieda Date: 23 Mar 2001 01:00:44 +0900 In-Reply-To: Corinna Vinschen's message of Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:15:08 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 >>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:15:08 +0100 >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > Sure. It's a known problem. It only happens in a console window, not > in xterm or other tty/pty connections. Tcsh uses the insert mode in the terminal capability. Cygwin console doesn't support it, nonetheless the termcap database tells it supports the insert mode. Therefore this problem can be solved by modifying the database as the following. cygwin:\ :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:im=:ei=:tc=linux: > Patches (probably to the Cygwin console code) welcome. I believe it is hard to implement the insert mode in the Cygwin DLL. ____ | AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda | HOKURIKU School of Information Science o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple