From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 11:49:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B3137B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from loki.daboyz.org (adsl-66-125-181-9.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.125.181.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1F443F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@loki.daboyz.org) Received: from localhost.daboyz.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=loki.daboyz.org ident=mike) by loki.daboyz.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18bnKa-000O6m-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:48:08 -0800 Received: (from mike@localhost) by loki.daboyz.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0NJm7YL092675; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:48:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:48:07 -0800 From: Michael Barrett To: Toni Schmidbauer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vim+Mutt+Backspace Message-ID: <20030123194807.GA92620@daboyz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Toni Schmidbauer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030123081600.GA18447@daboyz.org> <20030123140227.GA13355@devil.stderror.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123140227.GA13355@devil.stderror.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > Terror ist der Krieg der Armen, | toni@stderror.at > Krieg ist der Terror der Reichen. | Toni Schmidbauer > - Sir Peter Ustinov | -- ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Barrett | "I used to read, now I go to raves." mike@daboyz.org | -- Random MUNI Rider, speaking www.daboyz.org | to my friend Allison. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message