On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than >> those caused by the non-default setting. > > I think this is the way to go... >> >> 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). > > I concur here too. Solaris always gets this wrong IIRC. Plus I grew up on > HP_UX so between those older Unixes I probably came up with that setting had > it's been carrying on ever since...
For what it's worth, I have no erase set on my local Windows client but erase is set in .profile on the remote servers as ^H and I have no issues. I log into both Sun and HP_UX daily. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
