Ken Moffat wrote:
I feel like a newbie, please be gentle :)
LOL.
I've now got kde running on this machine, and mostly configured.
I'm hoping to use it here. Previously I had tried kde in qemu and
persuaded myself that it might be usable. ISTR that I managed to
configure the keyboard in konsole so that the backaspace key worked
correctly. But that was with the versions in January or February,
not the versions in BLFS-7.7.
Now, using backspace in vim merges the next line onto the end of the
current line, although using :u seems to undo it. But I cannot find
the setting to configure it - 'Settings' at first gave me some
options _without_ the useful option to change backspace, but with a
weird option to do something like 'do not ask again', but now I
cannot even get that.
Don't you configure the keyboard in the console before you enter Xorg? Do the
keys work for vim in that environment? The keys codes are controlled by loadkeys.
Use showkey. The backspace key should be 14 or at least that what I have.
Since I use a US keyboard, I don't have to do any configuration so it just works
for me.
By the way, in vim, you can just press 'u' in normal mode to undo. No need to
go to ex mode with :undo (or :u).
I do note that in konsole there is a Settings-> Configure Current Profile ->
Input panel that does allow changing keycode combinations. Backspace should be
0x7f (DEL) there.
-- Bruce
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