On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:04:31PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 01:31:11AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > When I hit backspace after a backslash, usually I just want to delete > > the backslash. I don't think I've ever intended to input a literal ^?. > > If I ever did want to insert ^H, ^?, or ^U, I would just type ^V first. > > > > I've passed this diff around privately before and gotten a tepid > > response, but it was pointed out to me that it would fit better on tech@. > > Original vi had this behaviour. AFAIK no modern vi (esp. all the vim > clones) behaves like this. I never depended on this feature and so think > we can follow the others and drop this magic.
I agree. Since there were no objections, I think this would be a welcome change. ok tb@
