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

[Lincoln Peters]

I don't know much about vi (I normally use pico instead; much frendlier), 
but I have noticed that some terminal emulators can get confused about 
certain keys that were not present on the ancient keyboards (ever seen the 
keyboard on an Apple II+ ?).  Most of the time, this happens to me if I run 
ssh in a GNOME Terminal.  Is there a CTRL-key equivalent to backspace 
(perhaps CTRL-D)?


>From: linmail at itab.com
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: <talk at nblug.org>
>Subject: Re: Can't backspace in vi-it's even weirder than I thought
>Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 08:21:36 -0800
>
>
>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.
>


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