Christopher Faylor 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.
>
> And a patch would have been appreciated...
Sorry, I didn't think I understood the code enough for that.
> However, I have made the change to Cygwin to translate backspace to ^?.
> It will be in the next snapshot.
Great, thanks! Does this apply both with and without CYGWIN=tty? And I
guess native console applications won't be affected by this?
The relevant termios default setting will need to change accordingly,
either by changing the definition of CERASE in include/sys/termios.h:
-#define CERASE CTRL('H')
+#define CERASE CDEL
Or by changing the initialisation in fhandler_termios.c:
- tc->ti.c_cc[VERASE] = CERASE;
+ tc->ti.c_cc[VERASE] = CDEL;
The cygwin section in /etc/termcap doesn't have a kb entry, so luckily
no change needed there.
terminfo has an entry for backspace though:
$ tput -T cygwin kbs | cat -v
^H
So this has to to change as well:
+++ terminfo.src 2009-05-30 07:50:44.893933600 +0100
@@ -5221,7 +5221,7 @@
- kbs=^H, kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A,
+ kbs=^?, kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A,
And then there are rxvt and xterm and their termcap and terminfo
entries as well ...
One more thing: with your change, Alt can be used to override ^? and
get ^H instead. Usually though, Ctrl is used as the modifier for this,
whereas Alt acts as Meta (i.e. it sends a ^[ prefix).
Andy
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