[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-49

Wed Jun 10 15:56:00 GMT 2009

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円) instead of ASCII BS
> (^H, 008円). The Control-Backspace key now returns ESC-DEL (^[^?,
> 033円177円) or 377,円 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
update to my ~/.inputrc because I have customised contents in it? (I am using
a home brew DLL from 2009年06月05日, which by my reading of the ChangeLog should
have all the related modifications in it. I'll upgrade to real -49 later but
I'm in the middle of gcj testruns that I don't want to perturb.)
> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-49?
>> A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009年06月08日 22:13"

 Would "cygcheck -c cygwin" also be worth a mention?
 cheers,
 DaveK
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