Can't backspace in vi-it's even weirder than I thought

[Mark Street]

Hehe, vi the breakfast of champions.  I'm not a vi guru but a d followed by 
an arrow key should work in command mode.   d <- will delete the previous 
char, d -> will delete the next char.

vim maps backspace and delete differently than vi.

man vi

In vimrc:
set bs=2

I sometimes forget my vi when on a remote machine.  gvim in X is nice too.

At 08:21 AM 11/3/2001 -0800, linmail at itab.com wrote:

>On Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 06:52 AM, linmail at itab.com wrote:
>
>>
>>Logging into  a Red Hat 7.1 machine from either a Mac OS X machine or a 
>>FreeBSD machine the backspace key only produces a beep while editing a 
>>file with vi.
>>
>>Anybody know how to fix this?
>>
>
>Adding to my own message.
>
>While editing a file with vi the delete (bakspace) key deletes characters 
>to the right of the cursor with out ever enter edit mode!
>
>vi sometxtfile
>
>arrow into the middle of an existing line, push backspace key and the 
>letters to the right of the cursor start getting eaten up.