Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:35:21 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $TERM woes Message-ID: <20011206203521.A19927@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20011203171617.D35627@roman.mobil.cz> References: <20011203171617.D35627@roman.mobil.cz>
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> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:16:17 +0100
> From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: $TERM woes
>
> I used rxvt-2.6.3 with afterstep-1.8.9. All was fine. Then I switched to
> blackbox-0.61.1, and suddenly backspace stopped working in vim. (It also
> doesn't work in abook, but I started using it after I switched wmanagers,
> so I don't know how it behaved in afterstep.) Note that nothing else
> (relevant) has changed in my setup, and I can demonstrate this strange
> behavior with just replacing "exec blackbox" with "exec afterstep" in my
> .xinitrc.
>
> With $TERM set to xterm(-color) (via .Xdefaults), backspace beeps in vim.
> With $TERM set to rxvt, it puts ^? in the buffer. Note that this is not
> literal ^? you would get with ^V<BS>, this is two characters: caret and
> question mark. (Also, I'm not able to insert any literal control char in
> vim with $TERM=rxvt, but that's another story...)
Just for the archives...
Whatever it was, it's gone since I've switched to aterm.
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