On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 15.06.2005 schrieb Alexander Volovics um 13:25: > > What happened to 'backspace' in vi. > > This works as it should in 'gnome-terminal' but backspace > > in vi in an xterm gives ''. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155538 Thanks for the reference. Using the last suggestion, adding '*ttyModes: erase ^?' to XTerm, fixed backspace when using vi(m) in an xterm. But it does not work when using vi under mutt in an xterm! There backspace still produces '^?'. Alexander