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Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 12:00:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0505071744430.1783-100000@ax0rm1.roma1.infn.it>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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