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RE: Backspace prob with vim under rxvt
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- Subject: RE: Backspace prob with vim under rxvt
- From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin dot schnitzius at citrix dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:35:24 -0400
http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html
This is targeted at linux but it provides background and some solutions.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 16:23
To: Bob McGowan
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Backspace prob with vim under rxvt
Bob McGowan wrote:
>
> "Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> >
> > "John A. Turner" wrote:
> >
> > > > I don't see this behavior. What are your stty
settings, CYGWIN
> > > > variable settings, .inputrc contents, and .vimrc
contents?
> ...
> > My point was not that everyone should copy my settings,
but that there
> > may have been some obvious thing in Kevin's settings
that was messing
> > things up; e.g. 'stty erase ^h" or something similar but
wrong. To tell
> ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The "something similar but wrong" seems to imply that the
'stty erase
> ^h' is wrong.
Oh gee. I was afraid this would happen. "stty erase ^h" is
perfectly
fine in certain situations. "stty erase ^?" is also okay in
other
situations. I didn't wan't to enshrine something obviously
wrong in the
email archives, so I said, "something similar to 'xxxx'
*BUT* wrong",
whereas 'xxxx' is (often) right.
That is, perhaps Kevin had "stty erase ^X" or somesuch. I
dunno; I was
just recommending that he take a look -- stty settings have
historically
been the (cause|cure) of backspace problems, so it's always
worth a
shot.
Again, my stty settings contain no specific reference to
'erase' at all.
(I did experiment with it, and explicitly set 'erase' to
'^h' and '^?'
and vim-in-rxvt worked fine in both cases.)
NOTE: '^h' is not "caret" "h", but is typed as "CTRL-V
CTRL-H". '^?' is
not "caret" "question", but is typed as "CTRL-V"
"BACKSPACEKEY".
> Is this correct? And if so, could you explain why? In a
> standard UNIX setup, this is perfectly legal and something
I have done
> frequently. Though I must admit it was for standard
serial interfaced
> terminals and not pseudo tty based xterms...
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Bob McGowan
> Staff Software Quality Engineer
> VERITAS Software
> rmcgowan@veritas.com
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