I noticed the same thing. I figured they just forgot to tell the shell what
to send as the erase character. I'm a bit of an old-timer, so typing ^H when
<backspace> doesn't work is automatic for me, like using h-j-k-l when the
"arrow-keys" don't work. If you issue this :
# stty erase ^?
( that would be <Shift><6> <?> )To the shell, things seem to work normally
again. You could probably stick that your shell profile as well, to make it
automatic.
Cheers!
~Charles
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 07:51, you wrote:
> With one of the recent vim upgrades I seem to have lost the
> functionality of my backspace key in vi. The backspace key works great
> in all other applications but when I try and backspace in the "insert"
> mode of vi all I get is "^?" (ctrl-question-marks).
>
> Any ideas how to solve? (And Chmouel --- No, I don't want to learn emacs
>
> :-) )
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
