gnome-terminal and FreeBSD's vi.

[Michael Johnson]

Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Set gnome-terminal to "login" .. it's in preferences somewhere.


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