Christopher Faylor: >>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.
The issue only affects the specific case of 'screen' running in the console without 'tty' in the CYGWIN settings: the backspace key sends ^@ instead of what's set in the console's stty settings. Yes, I assume it's a Cygwin bug. Andy -- 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
