Map Backspace to ASCII DEL?

[Ian Brandt]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.  I had tried that, but it seems to have no effect. 
  If I type C-v Backspace I still get ^H...

~$ stty -a | grep erase
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
~$ ^H

I believe that just tells the terminal what to do on the line when it 
receives ^?, but it this case it is not, it's getting ^H.  I need to 
remap the key at a lower level, but hopefully still in Cygwin, not in 
Windows.

~Ian


Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Ian Brandt <ian@ianbrandt.com> wrote:
> 
>>I've searched through the mailing list and have seen many posts related 
>>to backspace and delete behavior, so my apologies in advance for yet 
>>another one, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for in the 
>>archives.
>>
>>Currently it seems that the cygwin terminal sends ^H (ASCII BS, 0x08) 
>>for backspace, and the VT220 Remove escape sequence (\E[3~, 0x1B5B337E) 
>>for Delete.  I'd like it to send ^? (ASCII DEL, 0x7F) so that ^H can be 
>>used by applications (e.g. emacs).  This is how I've always configured 
>>other terminal emulators that I've used, and it has worked well.
>>
>>I believe Cygwin just repeats what it gets from Windows.  Typically for 
>>the console this would changed via keymaps, but I don't see that Cygwin 
>>uses this.  I don't want to change my mapping in Windows as obviously 
>>that would mess up my native environment.  Is there a low level way to 
>>change the keymap for Cygwin?  If not is there a source hack I could 
>>implement (and if so where in the source should I look)?
> 
> 
> `stty erase ^?', IIRC.
> 
> -- Elfyn
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