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Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
> Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> writes:
> 
> Backspace dowes not work at the momemt, so you'll have to suffer all my spelling  
> errors and greneral steeam-of-consciusness style. it's not pretty , i know, but I dont have very much time nowe. i need to restore the old drive in this machine before tomorrow so that i can work.
> 
> i have installed windows 7, and cygwin on that. unfortunalety it does not work very well .
> 
> i am wtriting this in an xterm m winfow on windows 7, sshd to a linux box. hence the backspace key  sends control-h, y
> 
> * soory * I had to scream . 
> 
> 
>> limited testing it seemed to be ok.  vim worked, bash worked, ssh and
>> sshd worked.
> 
> but not emacxs. 
> 
> fi
> 
> i'll tyry to list some problems. 
> -
> soory, i really have a hard time keeping my fingers off the backspace key.
> 
> - the cygwin command prompt works
> - emacs brings up the welcomme message, but when I do CX CF on a shell
> scrippt file it han gs , going into a lopp peeging one of the cores
> - the startwi XWin server menu item brings up the server, and a copule of
> other windows flaash by.
> - starting xterm from the cygwin prompt i get the old ddl failure, o so I did do a rebaseall
> - the starting xterm works, so I can d ssh and post this
> 
> Now, on linux the backspace key sends }}In 127. Please make that the default.
> It's the right thing for us emacs users, and it does not hurt anybody else.
> 

I am actually working on downloading Windows 7 from TechNet Plus.  Once 
downloaded and installed I may be able to do some cygwin testing but I'm 
going to poke around a bit first.  This will be a normal install and not 
done inside a VM.

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Robert Pendell
shinji AT elite-systems DOT org

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