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: <5.2.0.9.0.20030214141643.04a3e380@rogue.codemeta.com> X-Sender: lee AT rogue DOT codemeta DOT com (Unverified) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:26:09 -0500 To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Lee D. Rothstein" Subject: Re: The humble and other editing keys Cc: "cygwin" In-Reply-To: <012601c2d455$98d0e1d0$ab7886d9@webdev> References: <5 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 9 DOT 0 DOT 20030214122902 DOT 04314a88 AT rogue DOT codemeta DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Elfyn, Thanks. See my comments and further questions, below. At 2003-02-14 06:18 PM +0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > I want to do what any self-respecting > > should do, namely delete the character at the cursor. > >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 key. * ~/.inputrc works. /etc/inputrc doesn't. Why? * Is there documentation for this? Specific to Cygwin? Or, not necessary due to complete compatibility. Does terminfo, play a role, here? * How does one go about writing documentation for Cygwin? I'm interested. * What are the names of the forward and backward word keys in 'bash', and how do I set them to and . (I have the environment variable, 'EDITOR', set to 'TextPad".) Lee D. Rothstein -- lee AT veritech DOT com VeriTech -- 603-424-2900 7 Merry Meeting Drive Merrimack, NH 03054-2934 ---------- -- 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/