From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 20: 3:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654E337B412 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc by itouch.co.nz with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15hjFy-0009eQ-00; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:03:06 +1200 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:03:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question, please help... Message-ID: <20010914150305.B35048@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010914143607.A35048@itouchnz.itouch> <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:43:26PM -0400 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message