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Old 09-08-2011
Backspace to delete a single character
Hi

I normally use backspace to delete a single on my local machine in cygwin. Now I am trying cygwin on a virtual machine and when I type 'backspace', instead of a single character being deleted, the entire word gets deleted.

How do I change the settings for it?

I read somewhere that I need to alter my .profile file .. can somebody please help. I don't even know where to locate this file.

Thanks in advance!!
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Old 09-08-2011
Sounds like a TERM behavior. Which $TERM does it think you are using?

.profile is in $HOME ( ~ ).

Try something like 'export TERM=vt100 ; tset -Q'.
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Old 09-09-2011
Thank you
 
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