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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-49


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-48
> ===================================
> 
> - When running Cygwin applications in the Windows console window, the
>   Backspace key now returns ASCII DEL (^?, \177) instead of ASCII BS
>   (^H, \008).  The Control-Backspace key now returns ESC-DEL (^[^?,
>   \033\177) or \377, dependent on the meta mode set by the setmetamode
>   utility, rather than DEL.  Control-Space now returns ASCII NUL.
>   These changes should running emacs in a console window support better
>   and improve compatibility with the Linux Console and xterm.

  This has some unexpected results for me.  Starting up a shell (DOS console,
notty) everything behaves as before.  After running "stty sane", the backspace
key now starts printing ^? symbols instead of backspacing.  Did I miss an
update to my ~/.inputrc because I have customised contents in it?  (I am using
a home brew DLL from 2009-06-05, which by my reading of the ChangeLog should
have all the related modifications in it.  I'll upgrade to real -49 later but
I'm in the middle of gcj testruns that I don't want to perturb.)

> - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-49?
> 
>   A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-06-08 22:13"

  Would "cygcheck -c cygwin" also be worth a mention?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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