Can't backspace in vi

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:18:25AM -0800, Christopher Wagner wrote:
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} I also remember something about 'stty erase ^?' fixing the problem.  It's 
} been a long time though, since I usually just modify the terminal prog. 
}  Someone check me on that, please.

Yes you can try 'stty erase ^?'.  This tells the terminal or xterm you
are on that the ^?  is the backspace character instead of ^H.

Or you can try 'xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"'.  This tells the X
session to make the backspace key send ^H.  This assumes you are using a
"regular" PC keyboard on a linux machine.
"xev" shows the keycodes for the various keys on the keyboard.

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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com