On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said: > On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in >> >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... >> >> This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program >> that is tolerant of the two different ways of saying 'backspace'. >> >> If your 'erase' stty variable isn't set correctly, a number of things >> fail to deal with backspace correctly. For just one example, password >> entry when ssh'ing to another machine requires a correct 'erase' >> setting. > > Yes. Did you notice what I said? It's set automatically correctly for > rxvt and the cygwin console and xterm if you *don't* touch it in > /etc/profile. > > Can we stop this discussion and just do it right in /etc/profile by > just not setting it?
Humm, sorry I've just started reading this thread, does the /etc/skel/.inputrc have any (appologies for the pun) input into this? I'm willing to fix this - but I need somebody to tell me what's needed done :) J. -- 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/
