-Original Message-
Behalf Of KARR, DAVID
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:03 PM
Subject: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update
My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to
get everything I had reinstalled. After I reinstalled Cygwin (now at 1.7.17),
I'm seeing some problems starting up Cygwin tools. I don't see anything
specifically about this in the FAQ.
I normally run C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn Lucida Console-14 -tn
rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login from a shortcut for a shell outside
of
Emacs. When I do this now, it looks ok, but I'm now finding that the
Backspace key just moves the cursor forward one character, not deleting the
previous character.
I have another shortcut for C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe -
display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login. This behaves the
same as the previous with respect to Backspace. mintty does the same.
The Emacs shell is fine.
My CYGWIN variable is just set to nodosfilewarning.
Pressing Ctl-v followed by backspace gets ^H.
This is the output of stty:
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
erase = ^H; swtch = undef;
I compared my ~/.inputrc with /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.inputrc and there
were only differences in comments.
What other information would be relevant?
I resolved this. I took the advice I found on the internet, which was to
reinstall terminfo.
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