[wplug] Re: Strange keyboard behavior

[Vance Kochenderfer]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004, abhi s <abhia7 at netscape.net> wrote:

> For some reason I cannot use the backspace key in vim or gvim while 
> editing a file.
> I checked my keyboard and it is set to a standard english US format.

Is your backspace working normally otherwise (e.g., at the command
line)?  If not, try 'stty erase <backspace>' (hit the backspace key,
don't type out "<backspace>") and see if that fixes things.

If it's only happening in vim, it might be that the backspace value
is hard-coded in.  I've seen this with other programs, and the easiest
solution seems to be to hit CTRL-h whenever you want to backspace.

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