X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Backspace Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:58:26 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <4FE210E7 DOT 6070707 AT cygwin DOT com> <4FE28162 DOT 7040106 AT cygwin DOT com> <20120621090738 DOT GA26102 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120426 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: <20120621090738.GA26102@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H. > The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal > emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by the backspace > key, and stty erase is by default set to ^? as well, usually. Why don't > you just use the default? Because some time in the past I had problem with backspace not working and setting erase to ^h fixed it. I've had this setting for years - perhaps decades... -- Andrew DeFaria Opticalrectitus - a condition in which the optic nerve is connected to the anus. The major symptom is that all observations are routed through the wrong orifice. -- 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