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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:28:18 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From: Jason Tiller <jtiller AT sjm DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Another less/rxvt prob: Not interpreting <backspace>?
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Yo, Again, Sergei! :)

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sergei Okhapkin wrote:

> Set env var SHELL to "bash" before starting rxvt.

Thanks for taking a stab at this. :)  I did as you suggested, but this
didn't seem to change less's behavior.  Obviously I'm ignorant, so
I'm wondering why you thought this might fix me up...

---Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tiller [mailto:jtiller AT sjm DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:59 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Another less/rxvt prob: Not interpreting <backspace>?
>
>
> Hi, All, :)
>
> "Thank You!" to Sergei and Matthijs who graciously gave suggestions and
> commiseration about my problem with 'less' not determining the terminal
> size correctly.  Through no fault of my own, the problem seems to have
> ameliorated itself: running 'less' in a new rxvt instance no longer
> exhibits the quirky behavior of trying to scroll only 24 lines in a
> 25-line terminal.
>
> (Note that rxvt is still opening a window that is one row greater than
> what I ask for.  I ask for '-geometry "80x24"' and get 80x25, but that's
> a niggle.)
>
> However, 'less' now seems to be struggling to interpret keystrokes.
> Specifically <backspace>: when editing a search pattern, instead of
> erasing the previous character, 'less' inserts "^?". <Ctrl>-<backspace>
> seems to perform the function of <backspace>, as does <Ctrl>-h.  Once
> again, this behavior didn't crop up until my recent update from 1.3.12
> or so to 1.3.15 on Friday.
>
> Here is what I believe to be the relevant info about my system.  If this
> isn't clear or complete enough, please let me know!
>
> Installation info:
> cygwin: 1.3.15-2
> rxvt: 2.7.2-14
> bash: 2.05b-7
> less: 374-1
> termcap: 20020930-1
> terminfo: 5.2-3
> Win2K SP2
>
> rxvt invocation:
> C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c start C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -tn "rxvt" -fg
> grey -bg black -fn "Fixedsys" -sr -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash --login -i
>
> Relevant environment variables:
>
> TERM=xterm
> LESS=iFMSX# 8
> CYGWIN=tty nontsec
>
> Any ideas on how I can investigate this problem further?
>
> ---Jason



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