On 5/29/2009 5:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Now of course if emacs can translate low-level console I/O as it sees
fit, then the Cygwin DLL could also be able to translate Backspace
into ^? characters rather than ^H, in CYGWIN=tty mode anyway. So I had
a look at fhandler_console.cc. It already uses ReadConsoleInput(), so
mapping from VK_BACK to ^? might be fairly straightforward actually.
I guess Cygwin 1.7 will be the last chance for quite a while to make
such a change, so is this something that should be considered? A bit
of googling tells me that Redhat Linux actually decided to follow the
Debian guidelines many years ago and used ^? ever since, apart from a
little wobble in Fedora Core 3.
As I user, I certainly favor having cygwin behave the same as Debian and
Redhat. The change would also provide consistency between Cygwin's
terminals and Cygwin/X. Is there any downside?
Ken
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