X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BBE3F75.3090506@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:41:25 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 4/8/2010 4:07 PM, Al G. wrote: > This started happening around March 23, no problems with screen before > then. Since then using GNU screen (4.00.03) and trying to backspace by > hitting the backspace key results in nothing happening. The cursor > doesn't move, the character isn't erased and the command remains the > same (if you hit Enter whatever your typo was gets the usual error). > However, pressing CTRL-H does do a backspace correctly. Could this be > related to the termcap changes from [^H] to [^?]? I have searched the > forums and googled around; found a few hits, that didn't work, and no > solutions. I just tried screen with 1.7.4 and what you described worked fine. But I noticed your installation is incomplete and you're still running 1.7.1. Please download a new 'setup.exe' from cygwin.com and try reinstalling all of your packages. This should solve that problem at least. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple