From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 20:54:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F73437B413 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA17443; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:54:07 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <03a701c13cd0$f3122000$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "David Loszewski" Cc: References: <004501c13cc7$0f0e04e0$3000a8c0@sickness> Subject: Re: vi question, please help... Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:54:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello David, > When I press 'backspace' it doesn't do anything, I get no response. > When I press 'delete' it changes the casing of the letter that it's on > ie. N --> n. > The only thing I've been able to do even close to deleting is that if I > type some text and then press the arrow left arrow key it kind of undo > what I just typed. I have no idea how to delete. I've used vi many > times on many different systems and this is usually not the behavior > that I would get out of it. As a temporary solution until you got your correct terminal settings, remember that in command mode of vi you can always use the "x" to delete a character and dX to delete a word (X=w) a line (X=d) or to the end of the line (X=$). Also look at the substitute "s" and the replace "r" command. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message