2009/5/30 Ken Brown: > Now C-h and Backspace work as expected when I run emacs in a Cygwin console, > provided I do stty erase ^? first. Am I right in assuming that this won't > be necessary once the termios default is changed?
Yep. 2009/5/30 Matt Wozniski: > 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. Fair enough, but once you're over the surprise you might actually find it useful to tell Ctrl+Backspace from Ctrl+H. Also, having Ctrl+Backspace bring up the help in emacs is rather surprising too. Finally, the suggestion of ^_ follows the pattern that the Ctrl modifier masks off all but the lowest 5 bits of the unmodified character code, i.e.: Ctrl+A -> 0x41 & 0x1F -> 0x01 (^A) Ctrl+Space -> 0x20 & 0x1F -> 0x00 (^@) Ctrl+Backspace -> 0x7F & 0x1F -> 0x1F (^_) Andy -- 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/
