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| < < | -- TobyCabot - 27 Jan 2003 - 07 Apr 2003 | |||||||
| > > | Cygwin's rxvt seems to use ^H as the backspace character which seems to disagree with most Linux custom and practice, so it's a good idea to stty erase ^? in your .bashrc. Then backspace will work in bash and emacs.
http://www.khngai.com/emacs/bash.php - this page explains how to set up rxvt so that the delete key works as expected and so the "home" and "end" keys go to the beginning and end of the command line.
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