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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:50:17 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]
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[responding to no one in particular]
On Cygwin when you hit Backspace you get a ^H.  Cygwin has been doing
this for many years and it is duly recorded in terminfo and termcap that
way.  Changing this would require updating terminfo and termcap not just
on cygwin but on every system which has a cygwin terminfo entry.

So, while the choice by Cygwin's founders was regrettable, we're not
going to be changing it.  And, there is no bug here that I can see
other than my previous buggy email reading.

cgf

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