1st - thanks for the very specific instruction. I would probably have never figured that out on my own, unless it's already in an FAQ somewhere. I did look in the Cygwin FAQ and didn't see it. (Any chance this could be added to the FAQ?).
2nd - is there any handy little tool out there that would have helped me figure out that my PC's "DELETE" key sends the "sequence?" of meta-[3~? 3rd - I guess my real question was this - if cygwin is *always* used on a windows PC, shouldn't the version of readline that's distributed with cygwin be able to handle the delete key the same way that other windows/cmd.exe apps do, out of the box, with no requirement for a user to find this setting and add it to ~/.inputrc? 4th - Thanks for the detailed notes. I appreciate the comments. Personal rant - This is probably the biggest reason I get along a bit better in windows than Unix - how do I ever figure out that ESC,[,3,~ is what happens when I hit my "delete" key, then how do I find which file to put the rebinding in, then how do I figure out that ESC maps to \M-, then what is the name of the command to bind to (delete-char in this case), and on and on. If you throw in the ability to telnet to a unix host from multiple environments (mac, pc, dumb tube) with different keyboard layouts, and you throw in multiple Unix(-like) host environments (Irix,Unix,Linux,Cygwin) it's enough to drive a person mad, especially one like me that doesn't remember details like these very easily. Figuring out any issue of this nature involves reading several different programs' man pages (assuming I can guess which one), and possibly learning hardware details too. Thanks, --Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:00 PM Kevin, ... Now that we do have readline-enabled "command line" applications, BASH or other shells being the most salient in this context, a line like this in your .inputrc will achieve the results you desire: "\M-[3~": delete-char (Note: that corresponds to ESC, [, 3, ~ coming from the keyboard") -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
