Backspace

Thu Jun 21 02:06:00 GMT 2012

On 6/20/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a
>> new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for
>> any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a
>> command prompt and from mintty.
> An stty -a shows erase = ^h. Mintty is set to send ^h when the backspace
> character is pressed. At the bash command line backspace works as expected,
> the previous character is erased. However, if I do less <file> backspace
> does not behave properly or at least... Wait! I'm seeing something here.
>> 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.
>> Any idea of how to fix this for say gnome-terminal? Surely there are some
> out there who use regular Linux and gnome-terminal and ssh to Cygwin boxes...
>> Beyond personal preference, is there a reason that you don't just take the
>> default (i.e. don't set stty erase)? That works for me.
> Ah, cause I want a backspace to backspace? :confused:
>> 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.
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.
This makes me think that maybe you have erase set to ^H somewhere? What
does your .minttyrc look like? Other resource files? That's my thought
for what it's worth.
-- 
Larry
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