changing key behavior

[Alex Dean]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote:

>> The pico issues seems easiest to define : how can I get it to  
>> delete  what's to the left of the cursor rather than what's to the  
>> right when  'delete' is pressed?  I suspect that this is the same  
>> issue  manifesting differently in the 2 editors, but vi's behavior  
>> is a lot  harder to describe.
>
> It's odd that this behavior would change suddenly. Did you update  
> or install anything around the time this happened?
>
> One handy thing to see when you're at the shell prompt. Type Ctrl 
> +V, then hit backspace. It should print "^?". Ctrl+V, Del should  
> produce "^[[3~". If you're seeing those then you're OK up to a point.

I had this issue a while back, and never resolved it.  I'm on Debian,  
and I just did 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.  Amid all the packages that  
were upgraded, I saw the following output :

 >Setting up console-common (0.7.58) ...
 >Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/keymap.sh ...
 >Looking for keymap to install:
 >NONE

Is this normal?
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