Map Backspace to ASCII DEL?

Thu Aug 21 05:18:00 GMT 2003

Hi,
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)?
TIA,
Ian
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