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OS X / Debian / pico
Authored by: cclark on Oct 05, '04 08:46:07PM

I have the same issue when logging into a RH 7.2 box from my PB. Everything works fine in the terminal but the minute I start vim my backspace is interpreted as a delete and erases the character the cursor is on. I am still not sure how to fix it...



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OS X / Debian / pico
Authored by: eDogg on Oct 06, '04 09:08:19AM
I struggled with this a while back myself. Instead of posting the fix here, check the article on my blog. I hope this helps someone else too :-)

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OS X / Debian / pico
Authored by: brasscannon on Jan 04, '05 11:58:56AM
Easy fix: Terminal, Preferences menu, "Declare terminal type ($TERM) as: [vt102]" instead of [xterm-color].

Log back in, or at least do "export TERM=vt102" on the Linux end.

Verify that keyboard "delete" is ^? and deletes to left of the cursor; keypad "delete" is ^[[3~ and deletes to the right of the cursor.

("Ctrl-V and press key" to see what it's sending is a good trick to know! Thanks for the reminder.)

Works perfectly in Debian's pico-lookalike, nano.

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