Paul,

Add this line to your "$HOME/.inputrc" file:

   "\M-[3~":   delete-char


This escape sequence happens to be shared by RXVT and the console.

To see where there are differences between RXVT and console, you can loot 
at the attached ".inputrc" file, which is the one I use.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:01 2002-07-25, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>Cygwin's bash seems not to interpret the delete key correctly. The
>backspace key nukes the character behind the cursor, as expected. The
>del key doesn't nuke the character ahead of the curser however. It
>inserts a tilde instead. I assume this is something related to either
>a bash setting or a terminal setting, but I ran out of clues (read:
>relevant information in obvious places in the bash man page) without
>fixing it a while back.
>
>...