On 21/06/2012 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H.
The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X
terminal
emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by the backspace
key, and stty erase is by default set to ^? as well, usually. Why don't
you just use the default?
Because some time in the past I had problem with backspace not working
and setting erase to ^h fixed it. I've had this setting for years -
perhaps decades...
At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than
those caused by the non-default setting.
If you're only interacting with cygwin and linux at this point, you
should be safe. Solaris and the other Unixes can be a real pain about
the whole ^H vs ^? thing, but Solaris has gotten a lot better in the
last few years and Unix has largely disappeared (I haven't had to
interact with a Unix box in a decade or so).
Ryan
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