On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:00:46PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >> One more thing: with your change, Alt can be used to override ^? and >> get ^H instead. Usually though, Ctrl is used as the modifier for this, >> whereas Alt acts as Meta (i.e. it sends a ^[ prefix). > >Actually, we could take this one step further. In MinTTY, if Backspace >is set to send ^?, Ctrl+Backspace sends ^_ (i.e. 0x1F) rather than ^H. >This allows that key combination to also be distinguished from Ctrl+H, >e.g. as a shortcut for erasing a whole word, like in many GUI >applications. As it sends a single control character, it can be used >to replace ^W in the terminal settings, with 'stty werase ^_'. (I'm >not suggesting that werase should be set to ^_ by default.) Anyone who >actually wants a ^H can still get that with Ctrl+H. > >The Linux console in Opensuse actually does the same thing, and two's >a standard, right? ;)
Actually, no. I emulated the linux console on my system. kterminal and xterm also makes no distinction that I can see between CTRL-Backspace and Backspace. cgf -- 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/