BETA4 Vi backspace behavior
Jeremy Chadwick
freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Mon Sep 20 20:59:20 PDT 2004
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.
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:29:57PM -0400, Mike B wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> >stty -a. Look at `erase'. `erase2' is not supported by "a lot" of
> >apps, but more and more seem to be supporting it. I've a PR that's
> >still open, in attempt to get less/more to support erase2.
> >
> >Also, if you're not truly on the FreeBSD VGA console, cons25 is
> >incorrect. In that case, try xterm or vt100.
> >
> >
> >
> Both erase and erase2 appear to be set to '^H'. I also looked into the
> "echoe" option but that didn't resolve the problem either.
>
> Mike
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