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Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're
>starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals.

If setting CYGWIN=tty affects the setting of the backspace key for ptys
then that's a bug in Cygwin.  You really should *not* be setting
CYGWIN=tty for applications like mintty, rxvt, xterm, ssh, screen, etc.,
which use ptys.  Really.

cgf

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