Monday, February 1, 2010

Re: backspace not working

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 06:53, Bee <200309@calcentral.com> wrote:
Alexander Dietz wrote:
> I have a problem with vim I could not solve after extensive googling and
> trying out. I am using vi on a xterm and whenever I try to use backspace to
> delete the character LEFT of the cursor, the RIGHT character is deleted.
> There is no difference between the backspace and delete key. How can I
> change to the desired behaviour?

Try stating with your vimrc disabled:

vim -u NONE

Does it work ok?

absolutely not, its worse than before. I get ^? characters (for backspace) and I cannot navigate using the arrow keys anymore.
 

Cheers
  Alex


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