On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>>The Linux console in Opensuse actually does the same thing, and two's >>>a standard, right? ;) >> >> Actually, no. I emulated the linux console on my system. kterminal and >> xterm also makes no distinction that I can see between CTRL-Backspace >> and Backspace. > > As I said, I've seen the ^_ in the text console on Suse only. Cygwin's > xterm at least does distinguish between Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace > though: if Backspace is set to send ^H, Ctrl+Backspacce sends ^?, and > vice versa.
On Debian, at least, the console sends ^H for Ctrl+Backspace and ^? for Backspace; that is a pretty common convention among terminal emulators that I've used. I vote against the ^_ suggestion; I for one would be genuinely surprised by that. ~Matt -- 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/
