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Subject:	Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> That should not cause Cygwin to send a null character.
>> I think it should probably just send the default \177 character.
>
>Makes sense given the botched design, but of course it does mean that
>the user's backspace keycode setting is ignored. Also, 'screen' would
>be expecting what was set in c_cc[VERASE] as the backspace keycode.

Uh, no.  I made it send \177 when c_cc[VERASE] is 0.  Screen is just
forwarding characters along so it doesn't care.

cgf

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