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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:54:26 +0200
From:      "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To:        "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vi question, please help...
Message-ID:  <03a701c13cd0$f3122000$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
References:  <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness>

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Hello David,

> 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.

As a temporary solution until you got your correct terminal settings,
remember that in command mode of vi you can always use the "x" to delete a
character and dX to delete a word (X=w) a line (X=d) or to the end of the
line (X=$). Also look at the substitute "s" and the replace "r" command.

Ciao
Siegbert


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