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On 6/3/2009 12:52 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> I think there's a minor bug in the way mintty handles the ^H/^? option for
>> the Backspace key.
[...]
> I guess what I could do is remove the setting from the dialog and
> instead make it a config file or command line option only, because
> it's not really something that users should normally have to worry
> about.

Does the command line option currently exist?  I didn't see it in the 
docs.  I'm asking because I'm going to update the emacs README when I 
make the next release.  I'd like to include up-to-date advice about how 
to best set up the various cygwin terminals for emacs.

Thanks.

Ken

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