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Re: How to make Cygwin map backspace to ASCII DEL?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Hannu Koivisto <azure at iki dot fi>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:19:17 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: How to make Cygwin map backspace to ASCII DEL?
- References: <87k74ucaj0.fsf@lynx.tre-1.ionific.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just upgraded all Cygwin packages to their latest versions.
> Although I don't use Cygwin a lot, I'm fairly sure that I would
> have noticed if backspace in an ordinary Windows console window had
> ended up as ^H to a Cygwin application (zsh in this case) running
> in that console window, which is what happens now.
>
> Anyway, whatever the old behaviour was, I want backspace to
> generate ASCII DEL (^?) and not ^H --- how can I make Cygwin do
> that?
"man stty"
Igor
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