gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi.

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 08:42 +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> El Thursday 21 April 2005 06:52, Tom McLaughlin escribió:
> > 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".
> > <snip/>
> 
> One of the mayor source of problems with vim in any unix is working in 
> compatible mode.
> 
> Have you tried to work your .vimrc 
> from /usr/local/share/vim/vim63/vimrc_example.vim?
> 
> At last, try 'set nocompatible'.
> 
> --
>   josemi
> 

Vim is already fixed.  Only Vi still has problems.

Thanks.

Tom

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