On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 03:35:12PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 01:24:16PM -0000, David Lord wrote: > > Text console same as I've done for past 15+ years. > > Same problem on commandline as with vi from commandline. > > TERM=vt220 > > And what TERM do you get inside Gnome terminal? > You could try that on the text console as well, and also wsvt25. > > Actually if I try (inside rxvt) with TERM=vt220 it does misbehave, > but it works fine if I use xterm. rxvt doesn't emulate a vt220, and given the amount of difference between its terminal description and a vt220, there's no point in discussing it. The issue with the delete-key has to do with a mismatch between the actual terminal (or emulator) and the terminal description. It's been the practice in the *BSD's and vendor-Unix's to set that to ^H (ASCII backspace) rather than ^? (DEL). Ports such as rxvt may not be patched to match this convention. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey%invisible-island.net@localhost> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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