X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FE34735.7020709@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:09:25 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson 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> <4FE28162 DOT 7040106 AT cygwin DOT com> <20120621090738 DOT GA26102 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 21/06/2012 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > 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... At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than those caused by the non-default setting. If you're only interacting with cygwin and linux at this point, you should be safe. Solaris and the other Unixes can be a real pain about the whole ^H vs ^? thing, but Solaris has gotten a lot better in the last few years and Unix has largely disappeared (I haven't had to interact with a Unix box in a decade or so). Ryan -- 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