Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

[luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au]

Suggestion: include a shortcut for rxvt as well as for Cygwin, as part
of setup.exe?

rxvt is an excellent replacement for the Windows command window -
except that programs like vi seem to be expecting ^H for backspace,
whereas the key is actually sending a Del (^?), it seems.

The solution seems simple: just execute stty -erase ^?.

So, I have set up a shortcut for rxvt:

    C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sk -title rxvt -e bash --login

and modified my .profile to include:

	if [ "$COLORTERM" = "rxvt-xpm" ]
	then
	    stty erase ^?
	fi

That covers everything except rxvt windows started from the command
line.  Does anyone know why rxvt has this ^H vs ^? behaviour, and xterm
doesn't?

luke





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