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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 06:23:38 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin (and/or RXVT)
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On 5/14/2005 6:13 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> I have tried your code "stty erase ^H" in .bash_profile and as I thinked
> it works for standard bash shell and xterm BUT NOT for RXVT in which, now,
> BKSPACE is dead. In others words RXVT wants "stty erase ^?" as in
> /etc/profile.

WFM with rxvt and xterm, both with or without X, and with cmd.

For me, pressing [ctrl-v][backspace] prints out "^H" in all cases. I've 
simply removed the "stty erase" call from /etc/profile and everything's 
working fine.

I should note that I'm running the latest snapshot, though.

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