On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals.
If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys then that's a bug in Cygwin. You really should *not* be setting CYGWIN=tty for applications like mintty, rxvt, xterm, ssh, screen, etc., which use ptys. Really. cgf -- 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