Delete Key no longer working in vi in YDL 2.1

Subject: Delete Key no longer working in vi in YDL 2.1
From: Bill Fink (billfink@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 11:32:03 MST

Hi,

I'd like to report one minor problem I've encountered since upgrading
to YDL 2.1, and what I did to correct it. The delete key no longer
worked to erase characters. I suspect some kind of change to the X
keyboard mapping in the new XFree86-4.1.0-3d that comes with YDL 2.1.
In my case, all I had to do to correct this was to run the command:

        stty erase 

Note you need to type <control-v> followed by typing <delete> to
actually set the erase key to <delete>, which is then echoed as '^?'.
I then just added this command to my .cshrc file so it would get
executed for every interactive shell.

I don't know if this would byte anyone else, but just in case this
was my experience and fix.

                                                -Bill

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