Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000701c29ae5$89bc4300$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: Re: AW: cygwin emacs: broken key mappings Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:03:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 >> Oddly, backspace doesn't work in rxvt itself. I don't use emacs at all so I don't know whether this suggestion will help you. But when launching rxvt try including the switch "-backspacekey ^H" as in, say, c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe {lots of switches} -backspacekey ^H -e /bin/bash --login -i Does that help? Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/