Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:28:30 -0400 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi. Message-ID: <1114086510.15465.101.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <42673C8A.2040603@FreeBSD.org> References: <1114059152.15465.91.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> <42673C8A.2040603@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 01:39 -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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 > I've fiddled in the gome-terminal profile and it's not the Backspace and Delete bindings but the values produced that are the problem. Even if I switch gnome-terminal back to the defaults I still have the same problem, just that then Backspace produces the ^? on screen. The problem is with handling ASCII DEL itself in vi. -- BSD# Project - Porting Mono to FreeBSD http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD
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