Another less/rxvt prob: Not interpreting <backspace>?

[Sergei Okhapkin]

Set env var SHELL to "bash" before starting rxvt.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tiller [mailto:jtiller@sjm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:59 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Another less/rxvt prob: Not interpreting <backspace>?


Hi, All, :)

"Thank You!" to Sergei and Matthijs who graciously gave suggestions and
commiseration about my problem with 'less' not determining the terminal
size correctly.  Through no fault of my own, the problem seems to have
ameliorated itself: running 'less' in a new rxvt instance no longer
exhibits the quirky behavior of trying to scroll only 24 lines in a
25-line terminal.

(Note that rxvt is still opening a window that is one row greater than
what I ask for.  I ask for '-geometry "80x24"' and get 80x25, but that's
a niggle.)

However, 'less' now seems to be struggling to interpret keystrokes.
Specifically <backspace>: when editing a search pattern, instead of
erasing the previous character, 'less' inserts "^?". <Ctrl>-<backspace>
seems to perform the function of <backspace>, as does <Ctrl>-h.  Once
again, this behavior didn't crop up until my recent update from 1.3.12
or so to 1.3.15 on Friday.

Here is what I believe to be the relevant info about my system.  If this
isn't clear or complete enough, please let me know!

Installation info:
cygwin: 1.3.15-2
rxvt: 2.7.2-14
bash: 2.05b-7
less: 374-1
termcap: 20020930-1
terminfo: 5.2-3
Win2K SP2

rxvt invocation:
C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c start C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -tn "rxvt" -fg
grey -bg black -fn "Fixedsys" -sr -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash --login -i

Relevant environment variables:

TERM=xterm
LESS=iFMSX# 8
CYGWIN=tty nontsec

Any ideas on how I can investigate this problem further?

---Jason


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