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 Message-ID: <435675B8.1090401@gpi.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:35:04 -0400 From: Linus Hicks Reply-To: linus.hicks@gpi.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rxvt as Bash login console References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-imss-version: 2.032 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-approveListMatch: *@gpi.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Harig, Mark wrote: --- snip ---- > > I have also found that under some circumstances, the backspace > key does not work properly. The following setting fixed that > problem: > > rxvt*ttyModes: erase ^? > Bash seems to be very forgiving of what it uses as the backspace character, so no problem there, but the above doesn't work for me when I am in, e.g. vim. This is what works for me: rxvt*backspacekey: ^H And that matches what stty shows is set as my erase character. Linus -- 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/