Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Map Backspace to ASCII DEL? Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:24:55 -0700 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <200308211045.LAA11912@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk> <3F44C63C.3060203@ianbrandt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh In-Reply-To: <3F44C63C.3060203@ianbrandt.com> Ian Brandt wrote: > Dr.D.J.Picton wrote: > [snip] > >> I think that rxvt has the functionality which you require. For example: >> >> rxvt -backspacekey ^? -deletekey ^h >> will give you a session in which the backspace key generates ^h and the >> delete key generates ^?. (It might then be useful to issue stty >> -erase ^? >> so that you can use the backspace key to delete characters in simple >> terminal input.) >> >> In the case of emacs, have you tried running it under X11? In this >> mode it >> can distinguish between the backspace key (which it interprets as a >> 'delete last character' function) and ^h (which calls the help command). > > rxvt is purely an X application though, no? No. It's not a purely X only application. If you do not give it a -display nor have DISPLAY set then it works quite well with Windows - in fact better than the Cygwin console mode (with the exception of some programs that do not understand ptys like cleartool!). -- 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/