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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:30:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "'The Pho Man' Doug McLean" <buddha@u.washington.edu>
To: UW Linux Group <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Vim and deleting
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Ah thanks!  I assumed I didn't need to do that because I could delete when
on the command line, and that it was something missing in .vimrc  Happy
Thanksgiving weekend all!

Doug McLean

				"True words seem contradictory."
						--Lao Zi

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Slowping wrote:

|I don't know about VIM, but under some terminals, you can get the
|backspace to work right by typing:
|stty erase <hit backspace key>
|If it works, it should look like:
|stty erase ^?
|>From then on, your BS should work right.  I don't know if this trick will
|carry over into VIM.
|
|On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:
|
|> I seem to have a small, but annoying problem in vim where if I try to
|> delete using the backspace key, I just get ^? instead of deleting the
|> stuff.  This happens when I try to run a command from ex (i.e. the
|> : prompt) or when I am just typing stuff.  Anyone know of a way to make
|> backspace work like it should?  I imagine its just something I need to set
|> in .vimrc, but after poring through documentation and watching Pulp
|> Fiction, I can't quite figure it out.  Thanks!
|> 
|> Doug McLean
|> 
|> 				"True words seem contradictory."
|> 						--Lao Zi
|> 
|> 
|> 
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|

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