X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4FE28162.7040106@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:05:22 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Backspace References: <4FE210E7 DOT 6070707 AT cygwin DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 On 6/20/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a >> new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for >> any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a >> command prompt and from mintty. > An stty -a shows erase = ^h. Mintty is set to send ^h when the backspace > character is pressed. At the bash command line backspace works as expected, > the previous character is erased. However, if I do less backspace > does not behave properly or at least... Wait! I'm seeing something here. > > I get this problem with Console - another, non-Cygwin terminal emulator and > I see this problem with gnome-terminal. I don't see this problem with mintty. > > Any idea of how to fix this for say gnome-terminal? Surely there are some > out there who use regular Linux and gnome-terminal and ssh to Cygwin boxes... >> Beyond personal preference, is there a reason that you don't just take the >> default (i.e. don't set stty erase)? That works for me. > Ah, cause I want a backspace to backspace? :confused: > > Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one space and > to erase the previous character, like, for example, the less man page says > it's supposed to. Now methinks you're just being obtuse. Let me restate what I see in my environment. Erase is set as ^? but I didn't set it anywhere. So to my way of thinking, this is the default. This makes me think that maybe you have erase set to ^H somewhere? What does your .minttyrc look like? Other resource files? That's my thought for what it's worth. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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