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Re: need workaround for backspace change in 1.7


2009/12/25 Ric Anderson:
> For a Âvariety of reasons, I need a way to switch the character sent by the
> Console Window Backspace key from ASCII \177 to ASCII \008 (that is, make
> the backspace key send the ASCII backspace character like it did in older
> cygwin versions).

Can't be done at the moment, sorry. It would make sense for the
console to take the stty erase setting into account though. (I'll have
a look at that.)

Meanwhile, (u)rxvt, xterm and mintty all do have options for changing
the backspace keycode, so unless you need to run native Windows
programs that definitely require a console, you might prefer one of
those.

Andy

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