$ less anything /test^H^H^H^H $ LESSCHARSET=ascii or latin1 doesn't matter.
$ man less /BACKSPACE ... BACKSPACE Delete the character to the left of the cursor, or cancel the command if the command line is empty. ... BS is obviously considered a NON-editing key...(!?) sam goes for: ^LEFTARROW, ^RIGHTARROW, HOME, END, ^BS, ^DEL, TAB, BACKTAB, ^L /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E -- UTC+1, GMT+1, CET -- $ cygcheck -svr >c_svr-snap.txt $ grep -i less c_svr-snap.txt LESSCHARSET = `latin1' less 381-1 lesstif 0.93.41-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ bash (P)PID=(2140)768, s=0 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.5s(0.94/3/2) 20030916 22:11:16 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/