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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:10:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: RE: Another less/rxvt prob: Not interpreting <backspace>?
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tackett, Galen wrote:

> > If you are not totally happy about the 'stty erase blah' approach to
> > solving your problem, you could try adding the switch '-backspacekey
> > ^H' to your rxvt command line, so that it reads <something like>
>
> > C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 80x58+0+0 -tn cygwin -backspacekey ^H -e /bin/bash --login -i
>
> I hope this won't be just reiterating something everyone already knew, but--
>
> If you'd like to shorten up that command line you can also put the following
> in ~/.Xdefaults:
>
> *backspacekey: ^H
>
> (The asterisk is required.)
>
> Here's an excerpt from the rxvt manpage:
>
> --begin excerpt--
>
> backspacekey: string
>               The string  to  send  when  the  backspace  key  is
>               pressed.   If  set  to  DEC  or  unset it will send
>               Delete (code 127) or, if shifted,  Backspace  (code
>               8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC
>               private mode escape sequence.
>
> --end excerpt--
>
> For fuller documentation of rxvt (including many more resource settings)
> take a look at:
>
> http://www-ucjf.troja.mff.cuni.cz/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=/usr/share/man/man1/rxvt.1.gz

Does this mean the rxvt termcap/terminfo entries are incorrect?  If rxvt
sends ^? for backspace by default, shouldn't the termcap/terminfo entries
reflect that and interpret ^? as <backspace>?  If this only happens in
W11 mode, should the rxvt-cygwin-native entry be corrected?
	Igor
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