X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:16:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. Message-ID: <20100410161626.GA1904@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100410140811 DOT GA8593 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> 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 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Christopher Faylor: >>>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. > >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. Since setting CYGWIN=tty is pretty much equivalent to running under a pty I'd say that it could actually be a screen bug. Regardless, I hate for this to become entrenched in Cygwin lore. Setting CYGWIN=tty should not be viewed as a solution and I want to make very sure that the archives reflect that. 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