Bug 163812

Summary: vi doesn't do backspace correctly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Charles C. Van Tilburg <ctilburg>
Component: vimAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Charles C. Van Tilburg 2005-07-21 12:05:29 UTC
Description of problem:

vi does not seem to be doing the right thing with the erase character;
gvim works fine, vi in an xterm does not.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.3.071-3

How reproducible:

vi stuph.txt
i
foo
<try to backspace>

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

^?

Expected results:

<character is remove, cursor moved back>

Additional info:

may or may not have extended significance.

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2005-07-21 12:23:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160354 ***

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2005-11-07 19:34:23 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

xterm-205-1.FC4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2005-11-14 18:05:12 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

xterm-205-1.FC4 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.