Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:48:07 -0800 From: Michael Barrett <mike@daboyz.org> To: Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace Message-ID: <20030123194807.GA92620@daboyz.org> In-Reply-To: <20030123140227.GA13355@devil.stderror.at> References: <20030123081600.GA18447@daboyz.org> <20030123140227.GA13355@devil.stderror.at>
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That did it. Any idea why that would be needed for mutt but not for regular
vi?
Thanks a ton for your help. Wow, it's so nice to be able to use the backspace
when I typo. :)
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:02:27PM +0100, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:16:00AM -0800, Michael Barrett wrote:
> > 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.
>
> try these two options in your .vimrc
>
> set t_kb=^H
> fixdel
>
> for ^H you have to press CTRL-V and then hit the backspace key.
>
> toni
> --
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