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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:50:27 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Andrey V. Lukyanov" <land AT long DOT yar DOT ru>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: stty erase
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I have just installed Cygwin on Windows XP.

Immediately I noticed the wrong behavior of the backspace key.

As it proved, it was caused by the fact that terminfo for cygwin defined

	kbs=^H

whereas /etc/profile had the line

	stty erase '^?'

I think it would be better to put this line in /etc/profile instead:

	stty erase `tput kbs`

Then the erase character will always match the backspace key ("kbs") in
current terminal description.






Regards


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