On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 09:44:01PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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. > Yes, I was only asking about konsole. It is mostly correct, it's just using backapace when I'm on the last visible character on a line which is broken. > > 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). Yes, but when I key backaspace at EOL it deletes the EOL instead of backspacing > > 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 > I think my reply crossed with yours, but I'm still finding things slightly odd. OTOH, I'm probably using konsole more than I did when I tested kde in qemu - I think that I was mostly using rxvt unicode there, but here I have not started that, trying to unlearn the things that my fingers default to. I guess I might get used to it.
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