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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:17:45 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
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On May 10 06:56, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Angelo Graziosi on 5/9/2005 1:50 PM:
> > 
> > WHY an "xterm setup" if, as I wrote, the problems are present in standard
> > bash shell, i.e. that launched with cygwin.bat.
> 
> Chris apologized for misreading your email and misleading this
> conversation: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00393.html
> 
> > 
> > I have reinstalled Cygwin, installing only the BASE category: NO "xterm",
> > NO XORG, NO RXVT. ONLY BASE PACKAGES.
> > 
> > The problems are PRESENT in any case!!!
> 
> What are your stty settings?  What gets sent to the terminal when you type
> backspace?  I have the following:
> 
> $ [ctrl-v][backspace]^H[ctrl-c]
> $ stty erase ^H
> $ stty
> speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
> erase = ^H;
> - -imaxbel
> - -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke
> 
> To test that setting your stty erase character to the same as the
> backspace character, try:
> $ stty erase ^H
> $ cat > foo         # When all stty settings are correct,
> y[backspace]n
> [ctrl-d]
> $ cat -A foo        # then backspace consumes y before output appears
> n$
> $ stty erase ^?     # When the erase setting is wrong for the terminal,
> $ cat > foo
> y[backspace]n
> [ctrl-d]
> $ cat -A foo
> y^Hn$               # the backspace appears on the output
> 
> Now my question - why can't cygwin have sane defaults for the tty, so that
> this question doesn't continue to pop up?

What's a sane setting?  When I open a standard bash console window, this
simply doesn't happen.  Is $TERM set to "cygwin"?  That's the default
setting and, as noted, backspace works as expected here.  I tried it with
`rm -i' but the file didn't get removed when entering "y\bn".  So what?


Corinna

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