Backspace key not working in editor
Pankaj Govil
pgovil at chipublib.org
Sun Dec 31 19:09:13 UTC 2006
Can you try if this helps?
Do stty erase "^?" at your prompt.
That was stty erase within the quotes caret sign above number 6 followed
by question mark sign terminated by quotes again.
Now try to vi a file and see if this resolves the issue.
Thx,
PG
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Subject: Backspace key not working in editor
Fedora Core 6
Shell being run: zsh
OK, here is the thing that I can't seem to find... as myself, when I log
in, I'm set up to use zsh. When I edit files with vi, pressing the
backspace key yields the expected results, i.e., the character to the
left of the cursor is deleted.
But, when I "su - zroot" (zroot is the zshell root) it does not work.
Obviously I am not going through the complete login process, so what do
I have to set to get vi to work correctly with the backspace key?
It is extremely frustrating to not have the OS do backspacing correctly.
I'm sure I fixed this with FC2, but the upgrade to FC6 wiped out what I
did and I do not remember what I did, as it was ages ago.
FYI, it is also wrong if I su to root, which defaults to bash.
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