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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:42:59 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
To:        Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rxvt: backspace won't work?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310291642410.916@bitch.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3FA13CD2.30005@hotmail.com>
References:  <3FA13CD2.30005@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Hello. I just have rxvt installed and working.
>
> The problem now is that when I am in vi, in the input mode (press 'a' or
> 'i' to enter input mode), if I press the backspace, a '\?' is resulted
> instead of deleting the character befor cursor. This also happens when I
> use less(3), when I search something with '/' the searched text cannot
> be backspace-deleted.
>

Try stty erase <back space key>

Rus

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