gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi.

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Thursday 21 April 2005 06:52, Tom McLaughlin escribió:
> Just wondering, has anyone ever gotten FreeBSD's own vi to work well
> with gnome-terminal?  I've found that unless $TERM is set to cons25
> then vi has problems handling ASCII DEL (^?) sequences correctly.
>
> Right now in the gnome-terminal profile I have Backspace generating a
> Ctrl+H and Delete generating an ASCII DEL.  That's standard xterm
> vt100 emulation and matches cons25 terminal behavior.  (In case
> you're wondering why I changed the default behavior it's because vi
> doesn't handle the ^[[3~ escape sequence very well either.)  When
> using vi in insert mode, delete is generating a ^? on screen each
> time it is pressed.  In other modes I get an error stating "^? isn't
> a vi command".
> <snip/>

One of the mayor source of problems with vim in any unix is working in 
compatible mode.

Have you tried to work your .vimrc 
from /usr/local/share/vim/vim63/vimrc_example.vim?

At last, try 'set nocompatible'.

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  josemi