X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:08:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. Message-ID: <20100410140811.GA8593@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys then that's a bug in Cygwin. You really should *not* be setting CYGWIN=tty for applications like mintty, rxvt, xterm, ssh, screen, etc., which use ptys. Really. cgf -- 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