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 X-AuthUser: gerrit:koeln.convey.de Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:20:54 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <128243475979.20030821132054@familiehaase.de> To: Cygwin CC: Ian Brandt Subject: Re: Map Backspace to ASCII DEL? In-Reply-To: <113239815566.20030821121953@familiehaase.de> References: <3F444AC6.7090900@ianbrandt.com> <113239815566.20030821121953@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Ian, my apologies, I'm still learning english;) >> 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 > # "\C-h": backward-delete-char > # "\C-?": backward-delete-char At least I found the Bash builtin bind: bind -u backward-delete-char removes all bindings for the Backspace key so you can define ^H yourself with another Function. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/