Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:16:05 +0300 From: Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@dir.bg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?" Message-ID: <46EE29B5.1030304@dir.bg> In-Reply-To: <20070917022908.GB72910@thought.org> References: <20070915010103.GA54302@thought.org> <20070914134128.GB33051@demeter.hydra> <46EC1D5C.3000208@u.washington.edu> <20070915202822.GA61976@thought.org> <20070915011204.GD35321@demeter.hydra> <20070916031452.GA64079@thought.org> <46ED6A70.7080108@dir.bg> <20070915203139.GA39803@demeter.hydra> <20070917022908.GB72910@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:31:40PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Jordan Gordeev wrote: >> >>>Gary Kline wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I find that if I use Settings -> Keyboard and then select >>>> "FreeBSD Console", I come fairly close. Then [Backspace] >>>> backs up, but the characters are not erased as I space >>>> backways. UsingTerminal, it defaults to this. >>> >>>Characters are not erased for me when I hit backspace in vi. In vim, >>>they are. >> >>Yeah . . . I'm pretty sure that's normal behavior for vi/nvi. Using >>backspace, then hitting <ESC> to return to command mode, might cause the >>backspace text to disappear. Typing after backspacing might overwrite >>the backspaced text without having to leave insert mode, too. I'm going >>on memory, here, and may be mistaken -- I didn't use nvi for very long >>before going back to Vim. >> > > > > There are Lots of thing I like about vim, but after having > fouled up with the undo's and lost some critical writing or code, > I went back to what I've usedsince Bill Joy pointed me at vi. > > vi only takes ONE hand, emacs takesat least 8 hands and a few > spare thumbs!!! > > gary > > Vim's undo can behave like vi's. Try ":help undo" or ":help compatible". How do you manage to use vi with only one hand? I need two :-) >>-- >>CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] >>W. Somerset Maugham: "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for >>wit." >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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