Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Dtcohen AT aol DOT com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 01:35:15 EST Subject: Re: getc() problem with Cygwin v1.0 To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com CC: Dtcohen AT aol DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Earnie Boyd writes... >Hmm... I just did `export TERM=ansi' and I can still do the backspace. What >happens if you do Ctrl-H instead of the Backspace key? Is it possible that >your Backspace key is mapped to be the Delete key? BTW, my CYGWIN variable >isn't set at all. > >Regards, > >===== >Earnie Boyd Chris Faylor writes... >I thought that I'd responded to this already but I can't find it in my mail >logs. > >There is a bug in the handling of "cooked" mode in cygwin 1.0 iff you are >using CYGWIN=tty. There is no workaround other than to download a snapshot. > >cgf OK, now we're talking. I unset my CYGWIN variable and now everything works fine. Thanks everyone for your help with this one. From Eric Fifer... > >I'm not sure this is related, but I posted about something >similar a few weeks back (and had no responses). I'm not >running v1.0, right now I'm running the 2000/01/05 snapshot >and the following is still true ... > >--- > >Subject: line editing not working with rxvt and recent cygwin snapshots > >Line editing (erase/kill) isn't working within rxvt. I'm not >sure why, but characters are being processed immediately. > >It's easy to demonstrate, start up "cat" reading from stdin and then >just type "abc ENTER". > >In the normal console you'll see: > > bash$ cat > abc > abc > >In rxvt: > > bash$ cat > aabbcc > >With my old b20.1 setup, rxvt and line editing works fine. > >For the test, I forced my stty settings to be identical >on both ttys. And CYGWIN does set "tty". > Eric, Thanks for the post. I would suggest un-setting your CYGWIN=tty variable and see if you still have the problem. Jim Grishaw. dtcohen AT aol DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com