how to backspace in vi 2556
Self contradiction? Where?
That is clearer? Ok, if you say so.
Actually I learned to use a computer on an old IBM 1620, flicking switches on the console. It was my university's mainframe and they let a bunch of in on the weekend to play with it.
??? It was IBM who defined the backspace key to send out ^H, look at the technical reference manual bios code for the original PC. That had nothing to do with Gates.
There was no Del character as I recall. And there were no cursor keys either.
?? space is an ascii character which certainly is destructive.
?? Best?
Sure am. And the PC's marketing success.
Of course not. Again a straw man.
Michael Why does every new linux user have only heard of Redhat before? :S Speaking of my own 5 years of history working with various major Linux distributions and statistics gathered by the LinuxQuestions...
??? Most use hex now, not octal.
vim behaves differently depending on the value of ARGV0. If you call it as "-usr-bin-vim", it behaves one way; if you call it as...
Not only did I not mean to say it, I never did say it. I always said that ^H was used as HELP in emacs, which was why they fought the use of ^H for backspace.
Unfortuneately not. Various programs have various demands as to what character will act as a backspace. Some programs have ^H hard wired in. If they do...
I am afraid that they do by useage, much as I dislike it.
Back in the days you are talking about it was DEC that defined standards for exactly the same reason that Microsoft does now-- they dominated the sales of terminals etc. especially in universities.
Unfortunately they do not work consistantly and with each other. If you define your system to have the backspace key send ^? some programs will barf, and if you define it to send ^H others will.
My only point was that the use of the backspace key to do a destructive backspace, which is what most people want it to do is a mess under Linux, for whatever historical reasons you may care to ascribe it to.
I think in the context of "free" software, popularity is market share. If peope aren't using...
I run across them, I swear, I type conrol-H and go on. I do not remember them.
Unfortunately they are NOT designed that way. Sure they should be.
??? another straw man.
Lets see, Linux does it right? Linux is the kernel, and the kernel does not care. Or are you now adopting my position that Linux is the whole distribution? In which case some of the programs do not do it right. Many do. Some do not.
His problem was that he wanted the backspace key in vi to act as a destructive backspace. It worked that way in a terminal window for him and did NOT work that way in vi for him. He wanted it to work as a destructive backspace in vi. I have no idea how my fabrications, as you call them, would give him any problems at all. If they really were fabrications, they would affect his actions in no way whatsoever. On the other hand my advice would allow him to use vi in the same way as he did his terminal which was his problem. On the other hand your "corrections" would do absolutely nothing for him. He would be left as much in the dark about how to get vi to work as before. In fact it is so bad, that you admitted that you have no idea how to get vi to work so that the backspace key does a destructive backspace. Now, if you, who claim such a deep knowledge of Linux cannot get the system to behave as it should, so that you think that vi has no destructive backspace, then I claim that this is prima fascia evidence that Linux IS messed up.
??? No, you can set up vi to work such that ^H is destructive backspace, or that ^? is destructive backspace. The key above return often produces ^? in vi, not destructive backspace. IF that happens then you will usually find that ctrl-H produces destructive backspace.
Why not. So much excess junk has already been quoted, what is a few extra signature lines. I obviously do not want you accuse me of trying to erase your idenbreasty.
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