From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 11:29:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CD237B41E for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:28:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB6JSmC28616 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:28:50 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001120620280855:11327 ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:28:08 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB6JZLT20029 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:35:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:35:21 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $TERM woes Message-ID: <20011206203521.A19927@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011203171617.D35627@roman.mobil.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011203171617.D35627@roman.mobil.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/06/2001 08:28:08 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/06/2001 08:28:21 PM, Serialize complete at 12/06/2001 08:28:21 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:16:17 +0100 > From: Roman Neuhauser > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: $TERM woes > > I used rxvt-2.6.3 with afterstep-1.8.9. All was fine. Then I switched to > blackbox-0.61.1, and suddenly backspace stopped working in vim. (It also > doesn't work in abook, but I started using it after I switched wmanagers, > so I don't know how it behaved in afterstep.) Note that nothing else > (relevant) has changed in my setup, and I can demonstrate this strange > behavior with just replacing "exec blackbox" with "exec afterstep" in my > .xinitrc. > > With $TERM set to xterm(-color) (via .Xdefaults), backspace beeps in vim. > With $TERM set to rxvt, it puts ^? in the buffer. Note that this is not > literal ^? you would get with ^V, this is two characters: caret and > question mark. (Also, I'm not able to insert any literal control char in > vim with $TERM=rxvt, but that's another story...) Just for the archives... Whatever it was, it's gone since I've switched to aterm. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 8:33PM up 44 days, 7:16, 3 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.07, 0.10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message