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Re: Backspace


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 set to ^? as well, usually.  Why don't
you just use the default?

Because some time in the past I had problem with backspace not working and setting erase to ^h fixed it. I've had this setting for years - perhaps decades...
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