vi: backspace and delete key
I've heard of problems with emacs and the backspace and delete key not
working properly. Now I'm wondering what the correct behavior for vi is.
My keys seem to be acting a funny.
Backspace: Behaves the same way as left arrow key but it keeps you in edit
mode.
Delete: Very weird behavior...pressing it once will capitalize the previous
letter. The following keypresses delete the letter to the right of the
cursor but you also get bounced out of edit mode.
This is ridiculous. There are all these different versions of vi
(apparently I have nvi) and I don't know what to believe. Some site say
backspace does one thing and others say it does another.
Can someone shed some light on this craziness? Figuring all these minor
details out is getting extremely irritating to say the least.
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