Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> > The obvious method would be to check $TERM,
> > but of course that doesn't work...
>
> ... and I can't change it to "mintty", because even if entries for it
> were added to Cygwin's termcap and terminfo, any other system would
> say "what?".
Yes. Though you co
2009/10/17 Eric Backus:
> In passing, I'll note that xterm on my very old and out-of-date SuSE linux
> installation uses DEL, so matches your new version of mintty
Yeah, I think the GNU people managed to browbeat Linux distros into
standardising on ^? some time ago.
>> The workaround is to stick
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/10/16 Eric Backus:
> > Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the
> > backspace key returns ^H. This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for
> > xterm, and finding the 'kb' property for that entry, or by running 'infocmp
> > xt
2009/10/16 Warren Young:
> Well, on Linux consoles, the term type is "linux". Presumably this is one
> of the reasons they felt they needed a separate term type.
>
> Maybe MinTTY should be emulating something other than xterm, which doesn't
> have this backspace problem? I don't mean something va
Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/10/16 Eric Backus:
Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the
backspace key returns ^H.
xterm does still send ^H, but I agree both xterm and its termcap entry
ought to be changed to match the new Cygwin 1.7 default and the Linux
world. I sh
2009/10/16 Eric Backus:
> Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the
> backspace key returns ^H. This can be seen by looking in /etc/termcap for
> xterm, and finding the 'kb' property for that entry, or by running 'infocmp
> xterm' and looking for the 'kbs' property.
>
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes:
> CHANGES
> ===
>
> Keyboard:
> - The default backspace keycode now is ^? rather than ^H, to make
> Ctrl+H available as a shortcut for other purposes, particularly as the
> help key in emacs. The backspace keycode option is gone. Instead, the
> DECBKM control se
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode
support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is
largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server.
MinTTY is based on code from PuTT
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