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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:17:48 -0400
From:      Mike B <meb@cinci.rr.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior
Message-ID:  <414FAB6C.4040504@cinci.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com>
References:  <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com>

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Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
'^v backspace' yields "^H" and '^v delete' yields "^?". The delete 
button functions properly in vi but not the backspace. I've also had 
experience when paging through the history in 'sh -E' that will show the 
correct history but when you attempt to cursor back through and make a 
change some characters from a previous command are seen jumping through 
where the cursor has just moved. Weird

Mike



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