From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14773 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2003 20:31:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14630 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2003 20:31:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp5.hy.skanova.net) (195.67.199.134) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2003 20:31:04 -0000 Received: from P450 (t4o73p2.telia.com [62.20.219.122]) by smtp5.hy.skanova.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h8HKV2DA010848 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:31:03 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: Backspace in editing "less" command line... Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030917021418.GA15669@redhat.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01171.txt.bz2 $ less anything /test^H^H^H^H $ LESSCHARSET=ascii or latin1 doesn't matter. $ man less /BACKSPACE ... BACKSPACE Delete the character to the left of the cursor, or cancel the command if the command line is empty. ... BS is obviously considered a NON-editing key...(!?) sam goes for: ^LEFTARROW, ^RIGHTARROW, HOME, END, ^BS, ^DEL, TAB, BACKTAB, ^L /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E -- UTC+1, GMT+1, CET -- $ cygcheck -svr >c_svr-snap.txt $ grep -i less c_svr-snap.txt LESSCHARSET = `latin1' less 381-1 lesstif 0.93.41-1 Administrator@P450 ~ bash (P)PID=(2140)768, s=0 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.5s(0.94/3/2) 20030916 22:11:16 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/