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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:16:44 -0400
From: Ian Brandt <ian AT ianbrandt DOT com>
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To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Map Backspace to ASCII DEL?
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Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
[snip]
> I think that rxvt has the functionality which you require.  For example:
> 
> rxvt -backspacekey ^? -deletekey ^h 
> 
> will give you a session in which the backspace key generates ^h and the
> delete key generates ^?.  (It might then be useful to issue stty -erase ^?
> so that you can use the backspace key to delete characters in simple
> terminal input.)
> 
> In the case of emacs, have you tried running it under X11?  In this mode it
> can distinguish between the backspace key (which it interprets as a
> 'delete last character' function) and ^h (which calls the help command).

rxvt is purely an X application though, no?  I'm trying to get this 
going under the Cygwin console.  For X I could use xmodmap which would 
change the binding before it got to rxvt, xterm, emacs, etc.

I in fact often do use X by ssh'ing to a remote system with port 
forwarding.  I use Exceed as my local X server and it has a xmodmap 
equivalent.  It's nice because I can use the mouse for cut/copy/paste, 
but it is somewhat slow.  For a quick session the cygwin terminal would 
be much more efficient, if I could get it to function properly! 
(Besides the backspace problem I'm having issues with running full 
screen applications such as less and emacs -nw. (It seems that some 
terminal capability is not performing as advertised as the screen ends 
up garbled on occasion.  This is my next challenge.)

Regards,

Ian


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