From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16487 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2010 16:16:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 16467 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-55-5.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.55.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:16:28 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7598613C061 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 674E32B352; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:16:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen. Message-ID: <20100410161626.GA1904@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100410140811.GA8593@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00485.txt.bz2 On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 05:00:30PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Christopher Faylor: >>>Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're >>>starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. >>If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys >>then that's a bug in Cygwin. ??You really should *not* be setting >>CYGWIN=tty for applications like mintty, rxvt, xterm, ssh, screen, >>etc., which use ptys. ??Really. > >The issue only affects the specific case of 'screen' running in the >console without 'tty' in the CYGWIN settings: the backspace key sends >^@ instead of what's set in the console's stty settings. Yes, I assume >it's a Cygwin bug. Since setting CYGWIN=tty is pretty much equivalent to running under a pty I'd say that it could actually be a screen bug. Regardless, I hate for this to become entrenched in Cygwin lore. Setting CYGWIN=tty should not be viewed as a solution and I want to make very sure that the archives reflect that. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple