Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-29 Thread Андрей Забавников
Thanks a lot ! For a perfectionist like me this means so much ! Thanks ! 2013/1/29 Ken Brown : > On 1/28/2013 7:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote: >>> >>> In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_ >>> is space). Hitting enter te

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/28/2013 7:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote: In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_ is space). Hitting enter tells no such command `a`, so the deletion has effect but the the terminal is not updated correctly. Likewise for `

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-28 Thread Андрей Забавников
But despite my critics i of course appreciate very much even the fact that you try to figure out what the problem is. For me as an almost complete Emacs newbie that task would not be accomplishable. 2013/1/28 Андрей Забавников : > For exmple, bash completion is absent in line-mode, right ? > > 201

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-28 Thread Андрей Забавников
For exmple, bash completion is absent in line-mode, right ? 2013/1/28 Андрей Забавников : > Oh, sorry for empty message ... :) > > Well, putting terminal in line mode is almost as good as starting just > `M-x shell`, am I right ? And by good i mean bad and incovenient. It > is after all the whole

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-28 Thread Андрей Забавников
Oh, sorry for empty message ... :) Well, putting terminal in line mode is almost as good as starting just `M-x shell`, am I right ? And by good i mean bad and incovenient. It is after all the whole purpose of `M-x term` to work exactly like terminal not something text editor-like. And line-mode ki

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-28 Thread Андрей Забавников
2013/1/28 Ken Brown : > On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote: >> >> In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_ >> is space). Hitting enter tells no such command `a`, so the deletion >> has effect but the the terminal is not updated correctly. Likewise for >> `hom

Re: Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

2013-01-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote: In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_ is space). Hitting enter tells no such command `a`, so the deletion has effect but the the terminal is not updated correctly. Likewise for `home` and `end` buttons. I can reprodu

RE: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update

2013-01-04 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > Behalf Of KARR, DAVID > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:03 PM > Subject: Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update > > My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to > get everything I had reinstalled. After I reinstalled

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than >> those caused by the non-default setting. > > I think this is the way to go... >> >> If you're only interacting with cygwi

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than those caused by the non-default setting. I think this is the way to go... If you're only interacting with cygwin and linux at this point, you should be safe. Solaris and the other Uni

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/06/2012 11:58 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H. The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by t

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/21/2012 02:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish by enforcing ^H. The Cygwin console as well as mintty, the Linux console or any X terminal emulation I'm aware of default to ^? to be generated by the backspace key, and stty erase is by default se

Re: Backspace

2012-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 22:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards > >>one space and to erase the previous character, like, for > >>example, the less man page says it's supposed to. > >Now methinks you're ju

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one space and to erase the previous character, like, for example, the less man page says it's supposed to. Now methinks you're just being obtuse. I'm not trying to be obtuse. I jus

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/20/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a command prompt and f

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/20/2012 11:35 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Have you ever had the backspace key not go backward on character erasing the previous character in Windows programs? Neither have I. This has been bothering me for a while so... I have properly set stty erase ^h and from the bash command line backspac

Re: backspace does not work correctly on cygwin command prompt, its adding space in front of the character.

2010-04-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30/04/2010 08:14, Sameer khan wrote: > Hi, > > I installed cygwin 1.7.5-1. on my windows-xp desktop. > On cygwin command prompt, backspace is not working. > I tried following , but none of these worked > stty erase ^H > stty erase ^h > stty erase ^? > > backspace either adds extra space in f

Re: backspace key in gvim

2006-03-19 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 11:41 2006-03-19 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: It would appear that you have missed the answer of Igor Peshansky in: Which is very unfortunate since, as usual, his answer is of a very high quality. Refrasing it: vim +"h i_backsp" and

Re: backspace key in gvim

2006-03-18 Thread Steven Woody
Arend-Jan Westhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 23:42 2006-03-18 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: >> >>hi, >> >>i've installed gvim on cygwin, but the backspace does not work properly. the >>problem is, in insert mode, the backspace key can not delete any character >>which are typed before current i

Re: backspace key in gvim

2006-03-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Steven Woody wrote: > hi, > > i've installed gvim on cygwin, but the backspace does not work properly. > the problem is, in insert mode, the backspace key can not delete any > character which are typed before current insert mode ( it can only > delete chars typed in this inser

Re: backspace key in gvim

2006-03-18 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 23:42 2006-03-18 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > >hi, > >i've installed gvim on cygwin, but the backspace does not work properly. the >problem is, in insert mode, the backspace key can not delete any character >which are typed before current insert mode ( it can only delete chars typed in >this ins

Re: Backspace in gvim [SOLVED]

2005-06-12 Thread Gene Smith
Gene Smith wrote, On 06/13/2005 12:28 AM: This may not be related in cygwin but since that's where I am seeing it I will go ahead and ask. I am running gvim 6.3 windows version and cygwin latest version on XP and 2k which I just installed. Backspace in insert mode used to delete the char to the

Re: Backspace problem on VMS:K@N@!:

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:52:08PM +0200, Michael Lemke wrote: >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Hai Hong wrote: I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. Instead o

Re: Backspace problem on VMS

2003-07-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:52:08PM +0200, Michael Lemke wrote: >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Hai Hong wrote: I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. Instead o

Re: Backspace problem on VMS

2003-07-26 Thread Michael Lemke
>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>Hai Hong wrote: >>>I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should >>>when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. >>>Instead of deleting the character, my cursor jump to the beginning of >>>the

Re: Backspace problem on VMS

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >Hai Hong wrote: >>I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should >>when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. >>Instead of deleting the character, my cursor jump to the beginning of >>the line.

Re: Backspace problem on VMS

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Hall
Hai Hong wrote: Hi all, I'm having a problem in which the backspace doesn't work as it should when I telnet into a VMS machine while I'm in an xterm session. Instead of deleting the character, my cursor jump to the beginning of the line. The DELETE key doesn't work either. I've checked