Re: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan 12 12:46, Karl M wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:34 +0100
> > From: corinna
> > Subject: Re: Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2
> >
> > On Jan 11 22:39, Karl M wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi All...
> >>
> >> I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista Business SP2 machine.
> >>
> >> The first problem was that in bash shell launched from the cygwin.bat file in a console
> >> window, the backspace did nothing.
> >>
> Do the changes from 1.7.1 to the latest snapshot require me to do something with LANG settings
> for a US English Southern California Vista Business SP2 machine?
> 
> Pressing the backspace key did nothing, no cursor motion or deletion. Reverting to 1.7.1 restored
> the backspace key functionality.

That only occurs in CYGWIN=tty mode.  The problem was that in tty mode a
piece of code reset all termios settings of the console to 0.  That was
no problem so far, but now that the VERASE key from the termios settings
is used to delete chars in the console, it hurt.  I fixed that in CVS.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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