Subject: Re: Delete Key no longer working in vi in YDL 2.1
From: Bill Fink (billfink@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 11:41:17 MST
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Bill Fink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to report one minor problem I've encountered since upgrading
> to YDL 2.1, and what I did to correct it. The delete key no longer
> worked to erase characters. I suspect some kind of change to the X
> keyboard mapping in the new XFree86-4.1.0-3d that comes with YDL 2.1.
> In my case, all I had to do to correct this was to run the command:
>
> stty erase
Hmmm. I guess I shouldn't have put in the actual <delete> character
in my e-mail message, but just what gets echoed, i.e. the above should
have appeared as:
stty erase ^?
Sorry about that.
-Bill
> Note you need to type <control-v> followed by typing <delete> to
> actually set the erase key to <delete>, which is then echoed as '^?'.
> I then just added this command to my .cshrc file so it would get
> executed for every interactive shell.
>
> I don't know if this would byte anyone else, but just in case this
> was my experience and fix.
>
> -Bill
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