On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:46:13AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:24:16PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > On my system the proper sequence is: > > > > With the lines > > > > abcde > > 12345 > > vwxyz > > > > If the cursor is on 5 > > > > BS Normal: cursor backs up to 4 > > BS Insert: 4 is erased and the 5 moves left one character. Cursor still on > > 5. > > DEL Normal: 5 is is erased and cursor backs up to the 4 > > DEL Insert: 5 is erased and cursor is now on a blank space (actually EOL) > > So far, so good [ spent yesterday doing updates on other boxes ]. This next part is the problem:
> > If the cursor is to the right of 5 (only in insert mode): > > > > Backspace deletes 5 and cursor moves left 1. > > Delete removes the EOL so we get > > > > abcde > > 12345vwxyz > > For me, BOTH backspace and delete give me 12345vwxyz When I go into "edit profile" in konsole, on the Keyboard tab I am apparently set to use the linux console (that is confirmed if I look at the name within 'edit'), but both that and xfree work the same. There used to be a setting to specify ^H, I think, but the values do not seem to actually be editable. Ah! Success! If I change the settings to 'Solaris' the backspace key is shown as producing '\b' and backspace in insert mode works as I expect it to, both within the line and when at the end of the line. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
