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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-49
On Jun 10 17:07, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-48
> > ===================================
> >
> > - When running Cygwin applications in the Windows console window, the
> > Backspace key now returns ASCII DEL (^?, \177) instead of ASCII BS
> > (^H, \008). The Control-Backspace key now returns ESC-DEL (^[^?,
> > \033\177) or \377, dependent on the meta mode set by the setmetamode
> > utility, rather than DEL. Control-Space now returns ASCII NUL.
> > These changes should running emacs in a console window support better
> > and improve compatibility with the Linux Console and xterm.
>
> This has some unexpected results for me. Starting up a shell (DOS console,
> notty) everything behaves as before. After running "stty sane", the backspace
> key now starts printing ^? symbols instead of backspacing. Did I miss an
That's interesting. It only occurs when running bash as shell.
Tcsh just does business as usual after `stty sane'.
If you call `stty -a' after calling `stty sane', you see what
happened:
$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
[...]
stty has set erase to ^H. Is that perhaps because terminfo still
specifies ^H as erase for the "cygwin" terminal type?
> > - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-49?
> >
> > A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-06-08 22:13"
>
> Would "cygcheck -c cygwin" also be worth a mention?
And what would that tell us?
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.7.0-49 OK
Hmm...
Corinna
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