Re: Vi backspace key problem

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Tim Edwards wrote:

> Whenever I press backspace while editing a file in vi it inserts the 
> ^? character instead. Does anyone know the magic way to stop this 
> happening, its getting really annoying having to use delete every time 
> I make a little mistake in vi. This doesn't happen on our RHEL3 boxes.

What does "stty -all" say what the erase character is?   Mine says it's 
"^?" (aka DEL, \127) and that's what konsole and gnome-terminal map the 
backspace key on to.   xterm, on the other hand, maps it on to ^H (aka 
BS, \010).   I'd guess that someone "helpful" has done a "stty erase ^H" 
for you so that the backspace key works in xterm.

jch