gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi.

[Adam Weinberger]

Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> Just wondering, has anyone ever gotten FreeBSD's own vi to work well
> with gnome-terminal?  I've found that unless $TERM is set to cons25 then
> vi has problems handling ASCII DEL (^?) sequences correctly.
> 
> Right now in the gnome-terminal profile I have Backspace generating a
> Ctrl+H and Delete generating an ASCII DEL.  That's standard xterm vt100
> emulation and matches cons25 terminal behavior.  (In case you're
> wondering why I changed the default behavior it's because vi doesn't
> handle the ^[[3~ escape sequence very well either.)  When using vi in
> insert mode, delete is generating a ^? on screen each time it is
> pressed.  In other modes I get an error stating "^? isn't a vi command".
> 
> I've already fixed vim so delete and backspace behave the same under
> cons25 and xterm (the 'fixdel' option added to my .vimrc took care of
> the problem very simply after lots of googling) and I'd like to fix vi
> now.  Also, if somebody could tell me how to get Backspace to actually
> remove characters while in insert mode in vi that would be awesome too.
> That has annoyed me on all the BSDs.  Thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 

You can often fix this in your shell. Furthermore, IIRC gnome-terminal 
has a setting to control whether backspace gives ^? or ^H.

# Adam


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