> -----Original Message----- > Behalf Of KARR, DAVID > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:03 PM > Subject: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update > > My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to > get everything I had reinstalled. After I reinstalled Cygwin (now at 1.7.17), > I'm seeing some problems starting up Cygwin tools. I don't see anything > specifically about this in the FAQ. > > I normally run "C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn > rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login" from a shortcut for a shell outside > of > Emacs. When I do this now, it looks ok, but I'm now finding that the > Backspace key just moves the cursor forward one character, not deleting the > previous character. > > I have another shortcut for "C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe - > display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login". This behaves the > same as the previous with respect to Backspace. "mintty" does the same. > > The Emacs shell is fine. > > My CYGWIN variable is just set to "nodosfilewarning". > > Pressing Ctl-v followed by backspace gets "^H". > > This is the output of "stty": > speed 38400 baud; line = 0; > erase = ^H; swtch = <undef>; > > I compared my ~/.inputrc with /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc and there > were only differences in comments. > > What other information would be relevant?
I resolved this. I took the advice I found on the internet, which was to reinstall terminfo. -- 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
