Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:35:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior Message-ID: <20040921043545.GA82495@parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <414FAB6C.4040504@cinci.rr.com> References: <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com> <414FAB6C.4040504@cinci.rr.com>
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Do things work properly in vim (preferrably ports/editors/vim-lite) but not native /usr/bin/vi, or are they generally horked all around? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. | On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:17:48AM -0400, Mike B wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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