From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 17:43:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A944C37C1B4 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.21] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A9FA41E2007E; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 20:21:14 -0400 Received: from picusnet.com (localhost.picusnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by avatar.picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03759 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:59:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Message-ID: <38EBA947.3E2F09C0@picusnet.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:59:51 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: backspace key in Vi(m) under Xterm Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------3B80F2CAF81F97A95FF2703D" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------3B80F2CAF81F97A95FF2703D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey, i've been an Emacs user for like, 3 years and when i still had a copy of Linux around (about a year ago) i started playing around with the Vim editor. i was just wondering if anyone would happen to know how to get the Backspace key to actualy go back a space so i don't have to get RSI reaching for the Delete key. Emacs is just too slow to start and i need somthing more pure and fast. -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------3B80F2CAF81F97A95FF2703D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey, i've been an Emacs user for like, 3 years and when i still had a copy of Linux around (about a year ago) i started playing around with the Vim editor.  i was just wondering if anyone would happen to know how to get the Backspace key to actualy go back a space so i don't have to get RSI reaching for the Delete key.  Emacs is just too slow to start and i need somthing more pure and fast. 
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William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com)
http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU
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