BETA4 Vi backspace behavior
Jeremy Chadwick
freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Mon Sep 20 21:35:46 PDT 2004
Do things work properly in vim (preferrably ports/editors/vim-lite) but
not native /usr/bin/vi, or are they generally horked all around?
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| Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com |
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:17:48AM -0400, Mike B wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> >Try hitting Control-V then your Backspace key while inside of your
> >shell (or inside of a non-curses app, such as telnet). It'll spit out
> >what your backspace character is (usually ^? or ^H).
> >
> >It's highly possible it's supposed to be ^? instead of ^H.
> >
> >If it shows up as ^H, I have no other ideas.
> >
> >
> >
> '^v backspace' yields "^H" and '^v delete' yields "^?". The delete
> button functions properly in vi but not the backspace. I've also had
> experience when paging through the history in 'sh -E' that will show the
> correct history but when you attempt to cursor back through and make a
> change some characters from a previous command are seen jumping through
> where the cursor has just moved. Weird
>
> Mike
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