Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:03:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question, please help... Message-ID: <20010914150305.B35048@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:43:26PM -0400 References: <20010914143607.A35048@itouchnz.itouch> <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness>
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:43:26PM -0400, David Loszewski wrote:
> When I press 'backspace' it doesn't do anything, I get no response.
> When I press 'delete' it changes the casing of the letter that it's on
> ie. N --> n.
> The only thing I've been able to do even close to deleting is that if I
> type some text and then press the arrow left arrow key it kind of undo
> what I just typed. I have no idea how to delete. I've used vi many
> times on many different systems and this is usually not the behavior
> that I would get out of it.
Are you using an xterm (XFree86-3 or XFree86-4)? Or are you on the
console? What does "stty -a" produce?
When you are in vi's insert mode, what does Control-V DEL produce?
Similarly what does Control-V BACKSPACE produce?
All this sounds like a problem with your terminal-modes and key-mappings
rather than a problem with vi.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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