From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 04:35:45 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 DC8BA16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:35:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.parodius.com (mail.parodius.com [64.62.145.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC6243D2F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:35:45 +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 i8L4ZjNb082582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdc@pentarou.parodius.com) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by pentarou.parodius.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8L4Zjgo082581 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdc) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:35:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Current Message-ID: <20040921043545.GA82495@parodius.com> Mail-Followup-To: Current References: <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com> <414FAB6C.4040504@cinci.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414FAB6C.4040504@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 04:35:46 -0000 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"