strange backspace behavior in vim

[Ben Steeves]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:09:31 +0000, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> > Since installing FC3, however, I've had weird behavior in vim and some
> > other instances (e.g., when using Perl's CPAN module shell).  The
> > problem is this: when I hit the backspace key, a hex 0x7f is inserted,
> > rather than the previous character being removed.  This behavior does
> > *not* occur in gvim.
> 
> Hmm. Hex 0x7f is ASCII delete, 127. Do you have your terminal configured
> correctly? Which terminal? What does
> # echo $TERM $LANG
> return? How about
> # stty -a
> ?
> 
> Can you try creating a new test user? Do they see the problem?

The new test user works fine, so it has to be something in a config
file... I'm just not sure what file!

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