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From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash and the delete key
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:56:31 +0900
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Thanks, that was great - I was having a problem with some apps not
recognising the backspace key and that page fixed it with the stty option.

Regards

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Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert.
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"Tony Fenleish" <tleish AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:F59dRcT92W4cV50vsnb0001d9b0 AT hotmail DOT com...
> Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration
> Bash:
> http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash
>
> Background on this can be read at:
> http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
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> >Cygwin's bash seems not to interpret the delete key correctly. The
> >backspace key nukes the character behind the cursor, as expected. The
> >del key doesn't nuke the character ahead of the curser however. It
> >inserts a tilde instead. I assume this is something related to either
> >a bash setting or a terminal setting, but I ran out of clues (read:
> >relevant information in obvious places in the bash man page) without
> >fixing it a while back.
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