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Subject: RE: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:25:11 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of KARR, DAVID
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:03 PM
> Subject: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update
> 
> My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to
> get everything I had reinstalled.  After I reinstalled Cygwin (now at 1.7.17),
> I'm seeing some problems starting up Cygwin tools. I don't see anything
> specifically about this in the FAQ.
> 
> I normally run "C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn
> rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login" from a shortcut for a shell outside of
> Emacs.  When I do this now, it looks ok, but I'm now finding that the
> Backspace key just moves the cursor forward one character, not deleting the
> previous character.
> 
> I have another shortcut for "C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe -
> display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login".  This behaves the
> same as the previous with respect to Backspace. "mintty" does the same.
> 
> The Emacs shell is fine.
> 
> My CYGWIN variable is just set to "nodosfilewarning".
> 
> Pressing Ctl-v followed by backspace gets "^H".
> 
> This is the output of "stty":
> speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
> erase = ^H; swtch = <undef>;
> 
> I compared my ~/.inputrc with /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc and there
> were only differences in comments.
> 
> What other information would be relevant?

I resolved this.  I took the advice I found on the internet, which was to reinstall terminfo.


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