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: <012601c2d455$98d0e1d0$ab7886d9@webdev> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Lee D. Rothstein" References: <5 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 9 DOT 0 DOT 20030214122902 DOT 04314a88 AT rogue DOT codemeta DOT com> Subject: Re: The humble and other editing keys Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Since at least 1979, when I started using Warren Montgomery's > Emacs on System III UNIX, I have been annoyed with DEC's and > RMS's treatment of the (or key as they called > it. In those days, I "reconfigured" my keyboard to fix this > abortion. > > I want to do what any self-respecting should do, > namely delete the character at the cursor. > > Anyone know how to do this with Cygwin command line editing? In bash you can add the following # DEL key in bash "\e[3~": delete-char to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL ke. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/