[wplug] Strange keyboard behavior

[abhishek soni]

Thanks for the reply. 
I observed this behavior both in a console and a console in the X environment.
On the Toshiba Linux laptop mailing list (yes there is one!) someone suggested that I add 
backspace=2 
in my .vimrc file. 
This makes it work, but I do not know why!

Best,
Abhi

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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:32:05 -0400
From: "Robert E. Coutch" <robert.coutch at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [wplug] Strange keyboard behavior
To: wplug at wplug.org
Message-ID: <200404080032.05778.robert.coutch at verizon.net>
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Are you running vi from a console or in a console window from an X desktop 
environment?

If it's happening in a console window ( e.g. konsole on the KDE desktop),
check the terminal emulation settings (keyboard setting).

The various terminal types interpret the backspace key differently.

I think there's an environment variable too .... TERM or TERMCAP or something 
like that ??!?!?!


Hope this helps - let us know,

Bob

On Monday 05 April 2004 01:00 pm, abhi s wrote:

>> I have Suse 9.0 installed on a Toshiba 2430 S-255.
>> 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.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Best,
>> Abhishek
>>
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