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Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
- From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:08:50 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
Not only in xterm but also in standard bash shell.
I have always used xterm and until today I never have discovered those
problems.
What about the fact that when "rm" command (or cp or mv) ask to confirm
something, I can move the (box) cursor along the window as in a Editor?
Thanks
angelo.
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:52:10PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> >I discovered the following strange behaviour in bash and xterm (startxwin)
> >shells:
> >
> >BACKSPACE does not delete "y" as aspected but it only shifts the cursor on
> >"y" and when I type "n" and then RETURN the file foo.txt is REMOVED!
>
> This has something to do with how BACKSPACE is defined in xterm. It is not
> a generic cygwin problem. I suggest that you try the cygwin-xfree mailing list
> in that case.
>
> Also, there is absolutely no reason to cc corinna-cygwin in your email. Go
> back and read the words at the top of http://cygwin.com/lists.html, please.
>
> cgf
>
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