Re: Vi backspace key problem

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, 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.

You can try doing ctrl-backspace or alt-backspace as a temporary 
workaround. But this is most likely not a CentOS problem, how many CentOS 
boxes have this problem and how many RHEL boxes do you have ?

If you upgraded the machine (and have leftover configuration files, 
system-wide or use-specific) that influence the terminal emulation, this 
is most likely the cause. Try creating a new user and see if the problem 
is the same if you log on with that user. If so, it's most likely 
system-wide.

Kind regards,
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