backspace ^H madness [solved]

Pseud · Last edited by Pseud on Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

I use ssh to connect to machines at work. When I edit a file with vi on the remote system, I am forced to use ^H instead of backspace (pressing backspace prints some weird symbols). It works fine on the command line, though ... so I dont know if it has anything to do with stty. Any ideas?

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kashani · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

It might be the shell you're getting on the remote machines. Next time you login type bash and see if the behavior changes.

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Pseud · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject:

MrStaticVoid · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

I had this same problem when I had to use the ssh servers for compsci here at school. I fixed it by adding:

if &term == "xterm"
set t_kb=
fixdel
endif

to my .vimrc. Make sure that you are using vim though. I made an alias for vi to vim just in case.

Pseud · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: