Re: Backspace

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one 
> > space and to erase the previous character, like, for example, the 
> > less man page says it's supposed to.
> Now methinks you're just being obtuse.
I'm not trying to be obtuse. I just want backspace to do a backspace.
> Let me restate what I see in my environment.  Erase is set as ^? but I 
> didn't set it anywhere.  So to my way of thinking, this is the default.
Makes sense.
> This makes me think that maybe you have erase set to ^H somewhere?
Yes, I set it in my ~/.bashrc. Because I believe that big backspace key 
that I love to hit sent C-h.
> What does your .minttyrc look like?
As I said before "I get this problem with Console - another, non-Cygwin 
terminal emulator and
I see this problem with gnome-terminal. I don't see this problem with 
mintty". As such I'm not sure how .minttyrc applies here...
> Other resource files?
Which would you like?

I think you missed the part where I said "I don't see this problem with 
mintty". I see the problem when I use Console ( 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/) a non-cygwin terminal emulator 
that I use because it handle's Windows /dev/conin and /dev/conout better 
than Cygwin. I also see this problem when I use my home Ubuntu system's 
gnome-terminal coupled with an ssh to Cygwin running in a Windows 7 VM 
in my LAN.

I found where I can tell gnome-terminal to use C-h for backspace. Thanks 
- that problem is solved. I need to talk to the developer of Console to 
ask him about why Console was not honoring it's "Backspace == Control-H 
setting". And how he handles /dev/conin & conout so that perhaps mintty 
could be made better (Basically Windows programs like say cleartool and 
ActiveState Perl work with Console - i.e. typing cleartool will show you 
the cleartool problem. I think he's running a hidden cmd shell... anyways)

Sorry I didn't test out gnome-terminal but I was at my client's site 
today and didn't have access to gnome-terminal until I got home - 
otherwise I would have tested it and poked around first.
--
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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