need workaround for backspace change in 1.7

[Andy Koppe]

2009/12/25 Andy Koppe:
> 2009/12/25 Ric Anderson:
>> For a  variety of reasons, I need a way to switch the character sent by the
>> Console Window Backspace key from ASCII \177 to ASCII \008 (that is, make
>> the backspace key send the ASCII backspace character like it did in older
>> cygwin versions).
>
> Can't be done at the moment, sorry. It would make sense for the
> console to take the stty erase setting into account though.

Implemented in CVS, so with cygwin-1.7.2 (or the next snapshot from
http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/) you'll be able to change the
console's backspace keycode using 'stty erase ^H'.

Andy

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