From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 03:59:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A0A16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:59:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.parodius.com (mail.parodius.com [64.62.145.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C7D43D1D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:59:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdc@pentarou.parodius.com) Received: from pentarou.parodius.com (jdc@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parodius.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8L3xJvg081449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdc@pentarou.parodius.com) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by pentarou.parodius.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8L3xJve081448 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdc) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:59:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Current Message-ID: <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com> Mail-Followup-To: Current References: <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:59:20 -0000 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. -- | 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 Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:29:57PM -0400, Mike B wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >stty -a. Look at `erase'. `erase2' is not supported by "a lot" of > >apps, but more and more seem to be supporting it. I've a PR that's > >still open, in attempt to get less/more to support erase2. > > > >Also, if you're not truly on the FreeBSD VGA console, cons25 is > >incorrect. In that case, try xterm or vt100. > > > > > > > Both erase and erase2 appear to be set to '^H'. I also looked into the > "echoe" option but that didn't resolve the problem either. > > Mike