On May 10 18:53, John Morrison wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said:
> > Can we stop this discussion and just do it right in /etc/profile by
> > just not setting it?
>
> Humm, sorry I've just started reading this thread, does the
> /etc/skel/.inputrc have any (appologies fo
On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said:
> On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in
>> >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff...
>>
>> This is fine as long are you'r
On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in
> >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff...
>
> This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program
> that is tolerant
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in
/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff...
This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program
that is tolerant of the two different ways of saying 'backspace'.
If y
> I get ^H in a cmd window, an rxvt window, and an xterm window.
>
Hmm, it's been more than 1.5 years since I got cygwin working how I like it, so
I don't remember exactly what I did, but these lines in /etc/profile are
helpful:
# Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration:
# http://www.i
[responding to no one in particular]
On Cygwin when you hit Backspace you get a ^H. Cygwin has been doing
this for many years and it is duly recorded in terminfo and termcap that
way. Changing this would require updating terminfo and termcap not just
on cygwin but on every system which has a cygw
On May 10 15:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> /etc/profile (actually etc/defaults/etc/profile) needs to be updated like so,
> to match the current default behavior of the cygwin terminal settings:
>
> --- /etc/defaults/etc/profile.orig 2005-03-25 08:50:00.003125000 -0700
> +++ /etc/defaults/etc/profi
On 5/10/2005 8:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
I think I may have a culprit. When I run bash in a cmd window:
$ [ctrl-v][backspace]
^H
$ echo $TERM
cygwin
When I run it in an rxvt or xterm window:
$ [ctrl-v][backspace]
^?
$ echo $TERM
xterm
I get ^H in a cmd window, an rxvt window, and an xterm window.
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> > Actually, it would be nicer if $TERM of cygwin could treat [backspace] as
> > ^? [0x255] (ASCII delete)
>
>
> ITYM 0x7f
[/me blushes] yep - thanks for spotting my typo
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>Sent: 10 May 2005 16:47
> Actually, it would be nicer if $TERM of cygwin could treat [backspace] as
> ^? [0x255] (ASCII delete)
ITYM 0x7f
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> > Now my question - why can't cygwin have sane defaults for the tty, so that
> > this question doesn't continue to pop up?
>
> What's a sane setting? When I open a standard bash console window, this
> simply doesn't happen. Is $TERM set to "cygwin"? That's the default
> setting and, as noted,
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