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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:43:07 +0100
From:      Steven Walker <swalk@anit.es>
To:        Evgeny Roubinchtein <eroubinc@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vi & word documents
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19981218224307.007d8d30@sar.anit.es>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9812181932180.30018-100000@dante36.u.washing ton.edu>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19981218194002.007bc430@sar.anit.es>

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Hi,

>You mean you keep seeing the ^H when you try to use the Backspace key to
>delete?  Sow^H if yuo^H^Hou mkae^H^H^Hake a mistake, you have hit ESC,
>then hx?  Most likely, it isn't about vi, but about the way your terminal
>is set up.  Are you using X or plain tty?  With (t)csh, you may have luck
>with 
>
>set noglob
>eval `tset -s`
>unset noglob

To be honest I am not sure.  I will look when I return in January and will
let you know.  Thanks for the input.

Steve


>
>in your .login (or .cshrc, depending on the situation).  I am by no means
>an expert, but with a bit more details, maybe we can figure this out.
>It _is_ possible to get Backspace to work "as expected", I am pretty sure.

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