gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi.

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 01:39 -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 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
> 

I've fiddled in the gome-terminal profile and it's not the Backspace and
Delete bindings but the values produced that are the problem.  Even if I
switch gnome-terminal back to the defaults I still have the same
problem, just that then Backspace produces the ^? on screen.  The
problem is with handling ASCII DEL itself in vi.

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