Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:58:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace key in Vi(m) under Xterm Message-ID: <20000407035803.A11782@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <38EBA947.3E2F09C0@picusnet.com>; from wdf@picusnet.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:59:51PM -0400 References: <38EBA947.3E2F09C0@picusnet.com>
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:59:51PM -0400, William Freeman wrote: > hey, i've been an Emacs user for like, 3 years and when i still had a > copy of Linux around (about a year ago) i started playing around with > the Vim editor. i was just wondering if anyone would happen to know > how to get the Backspace key to actualy go back a space so i don't > have to get RSI reaching for the Delete key. Emacs is just too slow > to start and i need somthing more pure and fast. You can make the real backspace, work as a backspare in all the applications started within an xterm easily :) Just add to your X resources file [this is called ~/.Xresources in my setup] the following line: % grep backspace ~/.Xresources XTerm*backspacekey: ^H then make sure that your ~/.xinitrc script calls xrdb -merge on the resources file: % grep xrdb ~/.xinitrc xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Oh, you don't have to restart X to load the ~/.Xresources file. Just run the xrdb command from and xterm. The xterms loaded after that will read the new resources. Ciao, - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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