Can you try if this helps? Do stty erase "^?" at your prompt. That was stty erase within the quotes caret sign above number 6 followed by question mark sign terminated by quotes again. Now try to vi a file and see if this resolves the issue. Thx, PG ________________________________ Pankaj Govil -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vidiot Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 4:23 AM To: RedHat main mail list Subject: Backspace key not working in editor Fedora Core 6 Shell being run: zsh OK, here is the thing that I can't seem to find... as myself, when I log in, I'm set up to use zsh. When I edit files with vi, pressing the backspace key yields the expected results, i.e., the character to the left of the cursor is deleted. But, when I "su - zroot" (zroot is the zshell root) it does not work. Obviously I am not going through the complete login process, so what do I have to set to get vi to work correctly with the backspace key? It is extremely frustrating to not have the OS do backspacing correctly. I'm sure I fixed this with FC2, but the upgrade to FC6 wiped out what I did and I do not remember what I did, as it was ages ago. FYI, it is also wrong if I su to root, which defaults to bash. MB -- e-mail: vidiot@xxxxxxxxxx /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign [So it's true, scythe matters. Willow 5/12/03] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
