Can't backspace in vi-it's even weirder than I thought

augie schwer at sonic.net
Sat Nov 3 09:23:34 PST 2001


> On Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 06:52 AM, linmail at itab.com wrote:
> > Logging into  a Red Hat 7.1 machine from either a Mac OS X machine or a
> > FreeBSD machine the backspace key only produces a beep while editing a
> > file with vi.
> >
> > Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> Adding to my own message.
>
> While editing a file with vi the delete (bakspace) key deletes
> characters to the right of the cursor with out ever enter edit mode!
>
> vi sometxtfile
>
> arrow into the middle of an existing line, push backspace key and the
> letters to the right of the cursor start getting eaten up.

you may find you have less problems and even greater editing power if you use 
VIM instead.

-augie

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