Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched through the mailing list and have seen many posts related > to backspace and delete behavior, so my apologies in advance for yet > another one, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for in the > archives. > > Currently it seems that the cygwin terminal sends ^H (ASCII BS, 0x08) > for backspace, and the VT220 Remove escape sequence (\E[3~, 0x1B5B337E) > for Delete. I'd like it to send ^? (ASCII DEL, 0x7F) so that ^H can be > used by applications (e.g. emacs). This is how I've always configured > other terminal emulators that I've used, and it has worked well. > > I believe Cygwin just repeats what it gets from Windows. Typically for > the console this would changed via keymaps, but I don't see that Cygwin > uses this. I don't want to change my mapping in Windows as obviously > that would mess up my native environment. Is there a low level way to > change the keymap for Cygwin? If not is there a source hack I could > implement (and if so where in the source should I look)?
`stty erase ^?', IIRC. -- Elfyn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
