Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:59:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BETA4 Vi backspace behavior Message-ID: <20040921035919.GA81408@parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com> References: <414F8934.4080509@cinci.rr.com> <20040921021141.GA77929@parodius.com> <414FA035.6000503@cinci.rr.com>
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Try hitting Control-V then your Backspace key while inside of your shell (or inside of a non-curses app, such as telnet). It'll spit out what your backspace character is (usually ^? or ^H). It's highly possible it's supposed to be ^? instead of ^H. If it shows up as ^H, I have no other ideas. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. | On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:29:57PM -0400, Mike B wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >stty -a. Look at `erase'. `erase2' is not supported by "a lot" of > >apps, but more and more seem to be supporting it. I've a PR that's > >still open, in attempt to get less/more to support erase2. > > > >Also, if you're not truly on the FreeBSD VGA console, cons25 is > >incorrect. In that case, try xterm or vt100. > > > > > > > Both erase and erase2 appear to be set to '^H'. I also looked into the > "echoe" option but that didn't resolve the problem either. > > Mike
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