On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >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.
Since setting CYGWIN=tty is pretty much equivalent to running under a pty I'd say that it could actually be a screen bug. Regardless, I hate for this to become entrenched in Cygwin lore. Setting CYGWIN=tty should not be viewed as a solution and I want to make very sure that the archives reflect that. 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
