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: <200308190913.KAA26901@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:11:31 +0100 (BST) From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" Reply-To: "Dr.D.J.Picton" Subject: Re: Various shell problems To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com, john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: aclP73oJfVdAqXHOaJ/rug== > From: Christopher Faylor > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:47:30 -0400 > Subject: Re: Various shell problems > References: <200308181839 DOT TAA08416 AT aps5 DOT ph DOT bham DOT ac DOT uk> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Dr.D.J.Picton wrote: [snip] > > I'll refer to this type of input as > >'simple' input. For example, if I create a file using the cat command: > > > >cat > test > > > >the line editing facilities are very limited. [snip] > i.e., "Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows" Just to clarify matters... I wasn't complaining about the limited functionality, only about a change in the 'stty erase' setting which reduced the functionality still further! On a Unix system the choice is really a matter of personal preference, but in the Cygwin environment there are good reasons to use backspace in preference to delete. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/