Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> writes:
Backspace dowes not work at the momemt, so you'll have to suffer all my spelling errors and greneral steeam-of-consciusness style. it's not pretty , i know, but I dont have very much time nowe. i need to restore the old drive in this machine before tomorrow so that i can work. i have installed windows 7, and cygwin on that. unfortunalety it does not work very well . i am wtriting this in an xterm m winfow on windows 7, sshd to a linux box. hence the backspace key sends control-h, y * soory * I had to scream . >limited testing it seemed to be ok. vim worked, bash worked, ssh and >sshd worked. but not emacxs. fi i'll tyry to list some problems. - soory, i really have a hard time keeping my fingers off the backspace key. - the cygwin command prompt works - emacs brings up the welcomme message, but when I do CX CF on a shell scrippt file it han gs , going into a lopp peeging one of the cores - the startwi XWin server menu item brings up the server, and a copule of other windows flaash by. - starting xterm from the cygwin prompt i get the old ddl failure, o so I did do a rebaseall - the starting xterm works, so I can d ssh and post this Now, on linux the backspace key sends }}In 127. Please make that the default. It's the right thing for us emacs users, and it does not hurt anybody else. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: s...@hcqngr.hh.fr This is all you need to know about vi: ESC : q ! RET -- 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/
