> Hi everyone
> I have two questions.
> The first one: I'm sure this is a very old question. I've found many instances
> of this on various forums and blogs, but none of the suggested methods seem to
> work for me. I am using putty to connect to a Solaris machine (SunOS 5.9). In
> the bash shell, the delete and backspace keys work as they do in Windows, for
> instance. But when in vi, the delete key capitalizes the character under it, or
> prints the tilde character, if in insert mode. I tired various things in .vimrc
> and .terminfo/x/xterm. I also downloaded and compiled vim and got the same
> result.
> Putty configuration is: Backspace key sends Control-H. Home and end-keys: rxvt.
> The function keys and keypad: xterm R6
> echo $TERM shows xterm.
> stty -a shows earse = ^?
> Any clues? I've even tried using emacs and putting several fixes into .emacs,
> but no success.
It sounds to me as though your TERM variable or the terminfo
database it refers to are incorrect for PuTTY. You can see what
your terminal emits for the Delete key by entering insert mode,
typing Ctrl-V, then typing the Delete key. On my system the result
looks like
^[[3~
where ^[ are the characters Vim uses to show the Escape character.
Terminfo refers to the Delete key as kdch1. (See "man 5 terminfo".)
To see what terminfo has for that key for your TERM, execute at the
shell prompt
infocmp -1 | grep kdch1
That command works as-is on Linux. As I recall, Solaris had
different commands to query terminfo but I can't remember what
they were and I no longer have access to a Solaris system. On my
Linux system that command shows
kdch1=\E[3~
where infocmp uses \E to represent an Escape character.
So when you press the Delete key, your terminal emits the character
sequence ^[[3~ which Vim (by means of the curses library) interprets
as kdch1, the Delete key, and performs the delete operation.
How you fix that depends on how it is wrong on your system. It
could be as simple as changing TERM to "xterm". In any case, now
you know something of the tools that may help you find the cause of
the problem.
> The second one: I compiled vim 7.3 and when I run it, I can't get help. For
> example, if I try :help fixdel, it displays an error message E433: No tags file
> and E149: Sorry, no help for fixdel. What do you think I missed?
> Thanks and best regards
Did you install it (i.e., execute "make install") or just compile
it? Vim is compiled with the path to its help files built in,
according to the options supplied to the configure script. If you
haven't installed it, the directory where it is looking for the help
files probably doesn't exist.
You don't have to install it in /usr/local. You can give the
configure script a --prefix option to tell Vim where to find its
configuration files and "make install" where to put them. When
building Vim on a system where you don't have administrator
privileges, a common solution is to set --prefix to $HOME.
HTH,
Gary
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