On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> On 11/30/05, Robin Mordasiewicz <robin at bullseye.tv> wrote: >>> While in centos3, using vim and clicking the backspace I see the ^? >>> character instead of it actually deleteing the previous character. >>> >>> In centos4 this was not a problem. >>> >>> I have rad about remapping keys and such, but can someone tell me >>> what >>> the difference between centos4 and centos3 is so I can make the >>> change >>> to make it work on centos3. >>> >> >> This isn't a problem with centos3, but rather with your terminal >> emulator. How are you accessing the system? >> > > I connect with Putty, and then I execute "screen -D -R" > from my screen session I ssh to my boxes. > > from the box I run vim on... > > [root at smtcorav02 SPECS]# echo $TERM > screen > > > > Should I be adding a termcap for screen or something ? > _______________________________________________ If you type stty -a at your remote login, it will tell you what character is being interpreted as erase. I'm guessing, that it is set to ^H, but putty has set your erase character to ^?. So there is a mismatch. I don't have putty, but I bet you can set it in the terminal emulation preferences. Or alternatively you can set it at your remote session with the command stty erase YOURCHOICE where YOURCHOICE is probably ^H (literally ^ and H) Tony