Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:26:53 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Michael Barrett <mike@daboyz.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace Message-ID: <20030123112653.GV86853@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030123081600.GA18447@daboyz.org> References: <20030123081600.GA18447@daboyz.org>
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# mike@daboyz.org / 2003-01-23 00:16:00 -0800:
> FreeBSD 4.7
> Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29)
> Vim 6.1.271
>
> Anyways, when I run vim from the command line, if I'm in insert mode and I
> hit the backspace key it acts normally. IE: It erases the character to the
> left of the cursor.
>
> However, when I'm editing an email to send (as I am right now) when I hit
> the backspace key it instead acts like I hit delete. (Erasing the character
> under the cursor).
>
> Any ideas as to why this might be happening? It's highly frustrating.
I had the same/similar problem when I started using FreeBSD. The
lack of user-level documentation, silence of
those-who-have-the-answers, all that was really depressing.
That said, I went through my .vimrc, .muttrc, .Xdefaults, and .zsh*
files, and /usr/share/misc/termcap, and all I could find was
XTerm.backspacekey: ^H
XTerm.deletekey: ^?
in my .Xdefaults; the ^H and ^? are literal characters, IOW, real
backspace and delete.
I had this problem some time ago: rxvt (or was it vim?) started from
my window manager's menu (which was then blackbox) behaved properly,
while if started through bbkeys (an app that handles keyboard
shortcuts in blackbox) I couldn't get backspace/delete behave. The
difference was in the way these two programs launched it. I don't
remember what I did to address it, perhaps the author of bbkeys
changed the code...
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