On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:12:42PM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote:
> Folks,
> I'm working on some Linux boxes (Redhat, Debian) but to get to them I
> have to go through and OpenBSD shell server.  Typically I login to the
> OpenBSD box, run screen on it, then ssh to the Linux boxes.  The problem
> I have is the backspace key doesn't work properly in vi on the Linux boxes,
> but works as expected at the shell prompt.  In vi when I type a backspace 
> I get '^?' char displayed on screen.  Very annoying.  Any idea what
> "stty erase" should be set to to make this work consistently at the
> shell prompt _AND_ in vi?

What are you using for vi - vim, nvi, ... ?

What does screen set $TERM to when you login?

Take a look at http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html for more
info then youi probably want on this problem.

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