how to backspace in vi 2559
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 "-usr-bin-vi" , it behaves another way. This is pretty common in Unix programs. How are you calling it? Are there aliases involved? (I have "vi" aliased to "-usr-bin-vim", YMMV.) There is a system-wide vimrc, but it may not be in the location I specified thanks to inter-distro differences in things. "locate*vimrc-*" to find it.
First off, I am not a video person. I barely watch enough movies to remember that the shiny side of the disk goes down. My school district...
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...
Did you try anything with "stty erase"? What'd that do? What'd xev report for the KeySym produced by the Backspace key?
3 is not defined. I think you may be having a stty problem, or possibly you're calling it with vi instead of vim, or something. Answer all the questions I asked here; that'll help people solve your problem. HTH anyway,
-- Back in my day, all we had were 0's. We painted them different colors to tell them apart. Once this started bogging the processes down, we switched to naming them. I still miss Bob. --skritch on a.f.c (1998) There is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see
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