Map Backspace to ASCII DEL?

[Ian Brandt]

Hi,

I've searched through the mailing list and have seen many posts related 
to backspace and delete behavior, so my apologies in advance for yet 
another one, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for in the 
archives.

Currently it seems that the cygwin terminal sends ^H (ASCII BS, 0x08) 
for backspace, and the VT220 Remove escape sequence (\E[3~, 0x1B5B337E) 
for Delete.  I'd like it to send ^? (ASCII DEL, 0x7F) so that ^H can be 
used by applications (e.g. emacs).  This is how I've always configured 
other terminal emulators that I've used, and it has worked well.

I believe Cygwin just repeats what it gets from Windows.  Typically for 
the console this would changed via keymaps, but I don't see that Cygwin 
uses this.  I don't want to change my mapping in Windows as obviously 
that would mess up my native environment.  Is there a low level way to 
change the keymap for Cygwin?  If not is there a source hack I could 
implement (and if so where in the source should I look)?

TIA,

Ian


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