X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:03:01 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin : bash doesn't recognize BackSpace Message-ID: <20100527140301.GC21583@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BFE4DF6 DOT 4080302 AT yandex DOT ru> <4BFE5B77 DOT 9050005 AT gmail DOT com> <4BFE7881 DOT 4050306 AT yandex DOT ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BFE7881.4050306@yandex.ru> 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 Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:49:53PM +0400, Andrei Dmitriev wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>On 27/05/2010 11:48, Andrei Dmitriev wrote: >>>after I installed the cygwin on May 19 the bash console don't recognize >>>*********BACKSPACE***** and continue to follow to the right each time I >>>press BACKSPACE. Although, seem it actually erases the chars from the >>>left (ENTER says nothing - so I concluded the command is empty). >>> >> >>MKS tools are interfering with Cygwin, because of these environment >>variable settings: >>> >>>TERM = 'nutc' >>>TERMCAP = 'D:\PROGRA~1\MKSTOO~1\etc\termcap' >>>TERMINFO = 'D:\PROGRA~1\MKSTOO~1\usr\lib\terminfo' >> >>You need to remove them from the environment, and should set your PATH >>so it doesn't have both Cygwin and MKS at the same time. >> >Ok, I removed mks from my path but the problem persists. It sounds like you only did half of what you need to. You need to remove the other environment variables too. Setting TERM=nutc is obviously incorrect for cygwin, as is pointing to non-cygwin vesions of TERMCAP and TERMINFO. 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