Thanks, works perfectly.
Someone needs to fix an rpm though.....
-Chris
"Charles A. Shirley" wrote:
>
> 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
