Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:39:22 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi. Message-ID: <42673C8A.2040603@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1114059152.15465.91.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> References: <1114059152.15465.91.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org>
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Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Just wondering, has anyone ever gotten FreeBSD's own vi to work well > with gnome-terminal? I've found that unless $TERM is set to cons25 then > vi has problems handling ASCII DEL (^?) sequences correctly. > > Right now in the gnome-terminal profile I have Backspace generating a > Ctrl+H and Delete generating an ASCII DEL. That's standard xterm vt100 > emulation and matches cons25 terminal behavior. (In case you're > wondering why I changed the default behavior it's because vi doesn't > handle the ^[[3~ escape sequence very well either.) When using vi in > insert mode, delete is generating a ^? on screen each time it is > pressed. In other modes I get an error stating "^? isn't a vi command". > > I've already fixed vim so delete and backspace behave the same under > cons25 and xterm (the 'fixdel' option added to my .vimrc took care of > the problem very simply after lots of googling) and I'd like to fix vi > now. Also, if somebody could tell me how to get Backspace to actually > remove characters while in insert mode in vi that would be awesome too. > That has annoyed me on all the BSDs. Thanks. > > Tom > You can often fix this in your shell. Furthermore, IIRC gnome-terminal has a setting to control whether backspace gives ^? or ^H. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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