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.
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). 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). thanks, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
