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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:53:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Screen, vim and backspace
Message-ID:  <20010703105159.C27505-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010703154743.A96802@tethys.valhalla.net>

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Try adding this to your ~/.vimrc:

set t_kD=^V<Delete>

That fixed the backspace/delete problem I was having.

Joe Clarke

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mark Drayton wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm having a hard time getting screen, vim and the backspace key to work
> consistently.
>
> On the console all is fine. Backspace works in my shell (bash), in
> vim, and in bash and vim inside a screen session.
>
> When I ssh in using PuTTY with the backspace set to ^H, backspace works
> fine in bash but not in vim (it tries to delete text from the right of
> the cursor, windows 'delete' key style). Inside screen backspace works
> fine in bash and vim.
>
> When I ssh in using PuTTY with the backspace set to ^?, backspace wortks
> fine in bash and vim. Inside screen, backspace produces a ~ in bash (but
> manual ^H backspaces fine) and in vim it tries to delete text to the
> right of the cursor.
>
> My TERM is set to xterm-color when I ssh in.
>
> So at the moment backspace set to ^H is less broken, but it still
> doesn't quite work right. I don't care if I have to set backspace to ^H
> or ^?, I just want it to work consistently!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Mark Drayton
> 4th Wave Technologies
>
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