>>>>> "loren" == loren jan wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
loren> i have debian 2.2 installed to my computer (a very recent loren> install via ftp). when i make a remote connection via ssh or loren> telnet to a solaris box or a redhat box, my backspace/delete loren> keys don't work in nvi/vim. this is ONLY in X...everything loren> works fine at the console. loren> attempting to backspace this word--->hello attempting loren> to move to the beginning and delete this word--->HELLO (turns loren> it to caps--it beeps when i do that, too) loren> the keys work fine in bash. in emacs, the backspace key works, loren> but the delete key doesn't. everything on the local machine loren> works fine. i've looked through many archives and web search loren> results trying to fix this problem, and i've spent /way/ too loren> long without finding a fix. perhaps this is evidence of loren> inferior mental capacity on my part? doesn't this seem a little loren> weird to anybody else? maybe i messed up during my x loren> configuration? This is a knotty area, but my first line of attack would be termcap/terminfo, and the TERM variable. Basically, you want the terminal database for whatever emulator you're using (xterm, xterm-debian, rxvt?) to be available on the remote machine. If the systemwide files don't have that entry (and it is unlikely that an xterm-debian entry, for instance, is installed on a Solaris), create a private terminal database under your home directory, upload the entry there, and set the corresponding environment variable (TERMCAP or TERMINFO) to point to your private tree. For example: on the remote machine, create a directory ~/terminfo/x upload /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-debian to that directory add this to ~/.ssh/environment on remote machine: TERMINFO=~/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
