Attached are a couple of small patches for changing the backspace keycode in xterm to ^?, and for changing its terminfo entry accordingly.
The xterm change is to add these two lines to its default resources in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm: *backarrowKeyIsErase: true *ptyInitialErase: true This tells it to read the backspace keycode from the pty's erase setting, which of course defaults to ^? on Cygwin 1.7. Debian does the same thing. The terminfo patch changes the kbs capability of the 'xterm-basic' entry, which gets included by all other "modern" xterm entries, most importantly, plain 'xterm'. Entries for old xterm versions, e.g. 'xterm-r6' and various 'xterm-xf86' entries remain set to ^H. Again, this follows Debian's lead. The terminfo patch also changes the kbs capabilities for 'cygwin', 'cygwinDBG', and 'screen', to reflect their change in default as well. Yaakov and Chuck, would you consider doing a respin of xterm and terminfo with these? Let me know if I can do more to help. Andy
terminfo-5.7_20090228-10.src.patch
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xterm-248-1.src.patch
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