X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790703020901m3255a3c3r172f8468717f8e41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:01:59 -0600 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: script problem In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790703020856sb1dff6dmb12ce09e1dba36d8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <16158.83687.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20070302162740.42069.qmail@web37207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <31b7d2790703020856sb1dff6dmb12ce09e1dba36d8@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/2/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 3/2/07, Asher Vilensky wrote: > > Ok, good point. You convinced me. Gone is X. > > One annoying thing I've noticed is that the backspace button doesn't > > work in vi. It produces '^?' character. Can somebody remind me how to > > set this right in .vimrc or whatever? I've been away from Unix/Linux > > for a while. > > Any other rxvt tips would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > check your /usr/share/vim/vimrc file for these: > > set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility > set backspace=indent,eol,start " more powerful backspacing > > or just stick a .vimrc in your home directory with these two lines > > That might help. > > -Jason > Forgot something. You probably don't have a /usr/share/vim/vimrc file. Do this to get a .vimrc file in your home directory: cp /usr/share/vim/vim70/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/