Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior

From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd_at_jdc.parodius.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:35:45 -0700
Do things work properly in vim (preferrably ports/editors/vim-lite) but
not native /usr/bin/vi, or are they generally horked all around?

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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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
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