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 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:50:17 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer] Message-ID: <20050510165017.GG15665@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <051020051547 DOT 6892 DOT 4280D77E000CE20C00001AEC22007503300A050E040D0C079D0A AT comcast DOT net> <4280E383 DOT 4040506 AT acm DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4280E383.4040506@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i [responding to no one in particular] On Cygwin when you hit Backspace you get a ^H. Cygwin has been doing this for many years and it is duly recorded in terminfo and termcap that way. Changing this would require updating terminfo and termcap not just on cygwin but on every system which has a cygwin terminfo entry. So, while the choice by Cygwin's founders was regrettable, we're not going to be changing it. And, there is no bug here that I can see other than my previous buggy email reading. cgf -- 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/