X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Eric Backus Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes: > CHANGES > ======= > > Keyboard: > - The default backspace keycode now is ^? rather than ^H, to make > Ctrl+H available as a shortcut for other purposes, particularly as the > help key in emacs. The backspace keycode option is gone. Instead, the > DECBKM control sequence for changing the backspace keycode is now > supported. Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the backspace key returns ^H. This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for xterm, and finding the 'kb' property for that entry, or by running 'infocmp xterm' and looking for the 'kbs' property. So, by default, mintty now does not match the terminfo/termcap entries. Is there any way to fix this? I hesitate to suggest changing the terminfo/termcap entries, since they should match the real xterm. But actually I don't run X11, so I don't know if the current terminfo/termcap really match xterm - the date on /etc/termcap at least is fairly old. -- Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple