Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: From: schew AT interzone DOT com (Steve Chew) Subject: Re: Control-W word erase in tcsh To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:18:11 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: schew AT interzone DOT com (Steve Chew) X-Motto: Never give up! Content-Type: text >> >> Hello, >> Using the latest Cygwin under Win98 and Win2k (though this has occured >> in all versions of Cygwin I've used). When I try to use a Control-W under tcsh >> it erases the entire line instead of just the previous word. It happens > >Default setting in tcsh. > >> whether I'm in the console or using an xterm (rxvt). It works properly >> when using bash. >> >> Is there an option that I can set to make it work? Or perhaps a >> termcap entry that needs to be modified? > >Did you try `man tcsh'? > Sigh. OK, sometimes I'm an idiot. :) I always thought that the word-erase was set by stty, but that's not the case in tcsh. Instead it needs bindkey. Thanks for the pointer. Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/