X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:11:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. Message-ID: <20100411021125.GA5932@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100410140811.GA8593@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410161626.GA1904@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410173607.GA3986@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410181700.GA7321@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> That should not cause Cygwin to send a null character. >> I think it should probably just send the default \177 character. > >Makes sense given the botched design, but of course it does mean that >the user's backspace keycode setting is ignored. Also, 'screen' would >be expecting what was set in c_cc[VERASE] as the backspace keycode. Uh, no. I made it send \177 when c_cc[VERASE] is 0. Screen is just forwarding characters along so it doesn't care. cgf -- 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