Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 16 07:56, Brian Dessent wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > > ^H? > > > > I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every > > linux/unix system I've used easily distinguishe

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
> --- Eric Blake wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > ^H? Yes, the post I pointed you to shows that both rxvt and xterm terminals can be configured under cygwin, by using t

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread Brian Dessent
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > ^H? > > I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every > linux/unix system I've used easily distinguished > between the two. As Eric said, if you're using a

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:41:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every linux/unix system >I've used easily distinguished between the two. Ah, but linux doesn't subscribe to our philosophy of maximum surprise for the end user - MSFTEU. cgf -- Unsubsc

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backspace IS control-H, and you must live with it > (or else submit a patch that creates a new terminal > type, perhaps called > cygwin-bs, with different key-mappings and new > termcap/terminfo database > entries, and a way for the user to select which o

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/15/2005 9:40 AM: > On my Debian Linux bash shell, the backspace key kills > the current character ("backward-delete-char" function > in .inputrc) and my ctrl-H key simply moves the cursor > left ("backward-char" func

How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

2005-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On my Debian Linux bash shell, the backspace key kills the current character ("backward-delete-char" function in .inputrc) and my ctrl-H key simply moves the cursor left ("backward-char" function in .inputrc) However, in cygwin's bash shell, whenever I use .inputrc to assign a function to control-