mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-16 Thread Jim Garrison via Cygwin
TL;DR New laptop, setting up mintty configuration identical to working desktop system. When connected to one specific Debian 11 (Bullseye) system (to which I connect often from the desktop with no issues), backspace appears to send ^H, and Debian interprets ^H correctly, but the terminal dis

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 16.01.2024 um 22:38 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: TL;DR New laptop, setting up mintty configuration identical to working desktop system.  When connected to one specific Debian 11 (Bullseye) system (to which I connect often from the desktop with no issues), backspace appears to send ^H,

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-18 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin! > Details > I have mintty set to term type "mintty" Don't do that. $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by appropriate terminfo(5) entry on the system. If an entry is not found, it will fall back to some other entry, which could be 'vt1

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.01.2024 um 14:08 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin: Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin! Details I have mintty set to term type "mintty" Don't do that. $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by appropriate terminfo(5) entry on the system. If an entry is not found, i

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-19 Thread Jim Garrison via Cygwin
On 1/18/2024 06:14, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 18.01.2024 um 14:08 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin: Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin! Details I have mintty set to term type "mintty" Don't do that. $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by appropriate terminfo