backspace in vi is ^? in FC3

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Sun Nov 14 23:25:44 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 14:52 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> After upgrading from FC1 to FC3 I've noticed vi no longer backspaces
> properly in insert mode. It puts up a ^? character instead. Has anyone
> else noticed this?
> 
> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
> Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.667 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
> "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
>                          -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
> 

Do you have the appropriate packages installed or just vim-minimal?

[wayne at FC3Work ~]$ rpm -qa vim\*
vim-enhanced-6.3.030-3
vim-X11-6.3.030-3
vim-common-6.3.030-3
vim-minimal-6.3.030-3

Wayne Steenburg




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