I have tried your code "stty erase ^H" in .bash_profile and as I thinked it works for standard bash shell and xterm BUT NOT for RXVT in which, now, BKSPACE is dead. In others words RXVT wants "stty erase ^?" as in /etc/profile.
I have tried also the code (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00456.html>): if tty --quiet ; then stty erase '^?' case "$TERM" in cygwin ) stty erase '^H' ;; xterm* | rxvt* ) stty erase '^?' ;; * ) # unknown terminal type, don't set erase ;; esac fi that works for std-bash-shell and RXVT BUT NOT for xterm! The reason, in this case, should be the fact that echo $TERM prints "cygwin" in std-bash-shell, and "xterm" in RXVT and in XTERM! I remain in the opinion that some recents upgrades have changed something (env. var., dlls) in cygwin conf.. Previously, also with this /etc/profile (3.2-1, 3.1-4, 3.0-1) with "stty erase ^?" all worked fine. For example, termcap upgrade (Apr 22) can have some influence? Or the rxvt package itself (Apr 10)? angelo. -- 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/
