how to get tilde to work with cygwin xterm + bash
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 22 22:05:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:14:11PM -0700, bcp wrote:
>using the combination of cygwin xterm + bash with a local session, the
>tilde key is dead (pressing it results in nothing on screen).
>backquote works. if i switch to an alternate shell (sh or zsh), the
>tilde key will start working again (~ appear on the screen).
>
>i'd be glad to rtfm, if someone could point me there - i haven't found
>anything that was applicable.
>
>system: dell latitude D600, win xp sp2, patched up to most recent,
>cygwin patched up to most recent.
My knowledge may be dated but, IIRC, this is often a readline problem.
Do you have a ~/.inputrc file? If so, make sure that the lines in it
end only with unix newlines and not with MS-DOS CRLFs.
cgf
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