Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
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.
I am actually working on downloading Windows 7 from TechNet Plus. Once
downloaded and installed I may be able to do some cygwin testing but I'm
going to poke around a bit first. This will be a normal install and not
done inside a VM.
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