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 Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 06:23:38 -0700 From: David Rothenberger Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin (and/or RXVT) In-reply-to: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <4285FBDA.1030507@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/14/2005 6:13 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I have tried your code "stty erase ^H" in .bash_profile and as I thinked > it works for standard bash shell and xterm BUT NOT for RXVT in which, now, > BKSPACE is dead. In others words RXVT wants "stty erase ^?" as in > /etc/profile. WFM with rxvt and xterm, both with or without X, and with cmd. For me, pressing [ctrl-v][backspace] prints out "^H" in all cases. I've simply removed the "stty erase" call from /etc/profile and everything's working fine. I should note that I'm running the latest snapshot, though. -- David Rothenberger spammer? -> spam@daveroth.dyndns.org GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 Do not think by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. -- 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/