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Re: Backspace


On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a command prompt and from mintty.
An stty -a shows erase = ^h. Mintty is set to send ^h when the backspace character is pressed. At the bash command line backspace works as expected, the previous character is erased. However, if I do less <file> backspace does not behave properly or at least... Wait! I'm seeing something here.

I get this problem with Console - another, non-Cygwin terminal emulator and I see this problem with gnome-terminal. I don't see this problem with mintty.

Any idea of how to fix this for say gnome-terminal? Surely there are some out there who use regular Linux and gnome-terminal and ssh to Cygwin boxes...
Beyond personal preference, is there a reason that you don't just take the default (i.e. don't set stty erase)? That works for me.
Ah, cause I want a backspace to backspace? :confused:

Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one space and to erase the previous character, like, for example, the less man page says it's supposed to.
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