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Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.
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Christopher Faylor:
>>Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=3Dtty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're
>>starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals.
>
> If setting CYGWIN=3Dtty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys
> then that's a bug in Cygwin. =C2=A0You really should *not* be setting
> CYGWIN=3Dtty for applications like mintty, rxvt, xterm, ssh, screen, etc.,
> which use ptys. =C2=A0Really.

The issue only affects the specific case of 'screen' running in the
console without 'tty' in the CYGWIN settings: the backspace key sends
^@ instead of what's set in the console's stty settings. Yes, I assume
it's a Cygwin bug.

Andy

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