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04-20-2004 08:19 AM
04-20-2004 08:19 AM
The BACKSPACE key works fine under
all other applications.
When I use
always active: if I position the cursor on a line, and press the backspace key, it begins deleting text. Not only that, but it deletes text to the right of it, not to the left.
How can I make it inactive during visual mode,
and delete text to the left during insertion mode?
regards,
tonyp
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04-20-2004 11:18 AM
04-20-2004 11:18 AM
Re: vim & active backspace key
As 'backspace=2' on my system, it will move the cursor in non-edit mode, and delete-char-to-left in insert mode.
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04-20-2004 11:35 AM
04-20-2004 11:35 AM
Re: vim & active backspace key
It is set to backspace=2.
I found that the problem was with the
terminal environment: somehow
When I changed that, all was well.
It sure is great having several LINUX boxes handy with difference revs of the O/S.
I just U/G'd to RH 3.0 AS from RH 6.1 - only because the ancient Netscape browser was choking on .asp pages.
regards,
tonyp
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04-20-2004 12:42 PM
04-20-2004 12:42 PM
SolutionCheck your backspace settings in /etc/profile and or .bash_profile
See if the results are consistent with other telnet/ssh clients, remote and local.
I am using the same release of Red Hat to type this post and DO NOT have the same results.
Maybe I accidentally got something right.
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04-21-2004 04:00 AM
04-21-2004 04:00 AM
Re: vim & active backspace key
Yes - that's where I found the difference.
I don't know what caused it to be messed up. It could be an anomoly that happened when I switched from BASH to TCSH.
Thanx for the input.
regards,
tonyp
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