Re: backspace key under X in vim
Stuart Marshall hat gesagt: // Stuart Marshall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite
> understood them. As near as I can tell, an "out of the box" hamm/frozen
> system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in
> Debian 1.3.
You can read about this in Debian-Policy under
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.8
Chapter 3.8 Keyboard configuration
I quote:
" [...] all programs in the Debian distribution have to be configured
to comply with the following
guidelines.
Here is a list that contains certain keys and their interpretation:
<--
delete the character to the left of the cursor
Delete
delete the character to the right of the cursor "
> The particular example that concerns me most is under the application
> "vim". When I am editing a file and in insert mode, the backspace
> key deletes the character under the cursor instead of the character to
> the left of the cursor. This is extremely annoying. I have "fixed"
> the problem locally by placing the line "keycode 0x16 = Delete" in my
> /etc/X11/Xmodmap file but the problem persists when logged in remotely
> on a Solaris machine running a standard X11R6.3 xterm. I don't know
> whether to blame vim, X, Debian, or the readline lib setup, but I just
> want the backspace key to do what it has always done (until now).
If your vim-version does not work as policy demands, it is buggy and
you [c|sh]ould write a bug report.
> So I have two requests. Can someone explain how Debian thinks it
> should be. And more important to me, can anybody tell me how to make
> the backspace key delete the character to the left of the cursor (both
> locally and remotely).
Maybe the vim-command :fixdel could help you.
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