X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52n3s5pb84a8e20mc4q6pg1d2s9sjdv6ak@4ax.com> References: <20100410140811.GA8593@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410161626.GA1904@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410173607.GA3986@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100410181700.GA7321@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100411093305.GN28908@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100411122809.GO28908@calimero.vinschen.de> <52n3s5pb84a8e20mc4q6pg1d2s9sjdv6ak@4ax.com> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:50:16 +0100 Received: by 10.239.193.6 with SMTP id g6mr218288hbi.212.1270997416381; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Andrew Schulman wrote: > It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this. Correct. > screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so I'm > not surprised that it has some problems of this kind. Don't worry, screen isn't doing anything wrong here. Setting the VERASE key on the console device to _POSIX_VDISABLED (i.e., zero) is perfectly legitimate, it's the console using that as the backspace keycode that caused the problem. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple