An alternative to providing instructions for a workaround would be to
modify the default initialization files that are provided with the terminal
emulators.
For example, rxvt comes with the following file:
$ cygcheck -l rxvt | grep app-defaults
/etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt
The post-installation script of rxvt could be changed to install the
default, system
initialization file 'Rxvt' into the directory /etc/X11/app-defaults/.
That file could
be modified to include the following lines:
Rxvt.backspacekey: ^?
Rxvt.ttyModes: erase ^?
With those changes (modifying the file and copying it into
/etc/X11/app-defaults),
rxvt should give the behavior that is expected for the backspace key and
the Control-H
key combination, both at the shell prompt and in terminal-mode Emacs.
Similar solutions can likely be devised for xterm and mintty, but I do not
have those packages installed. These solutions would need to be
incorporated
into new versions of the terminal emulator packages, which would require
the
agreement of those package maintainers.
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