Ben Steeves wrote: > For a few months I was using Debian Sarge but I recently re-installed > Fedora Core 3 (I was running FC2 before installing Sarge). I removed > my .gnome, .gnome2, .gconf directories from my home directory but > other than that my home directory has been consistent through all > three OSes. > > Since installing FC3, however, I've had weird behavior in vim and some > other instances (e.g., when using Perl's CPAN module shell). The > problem is this: when I hit the backspace key, a hex 0x7f is inserted, > rather than the previous character being removed. This behavior does > *not* occur in gvim. Hmm. Hex 0x7f is ASCII delete, 127. Do you have your terminal configured correctly? Which terminal? What does # echo $TERM $LANG return? How about # stty -a ? Can you try creating a new test user? Do they see the problem? James. -- E-mail address: james | When did you last back up your system? @westexe.demon.co.uk |
