Re: changing key behavior

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Author: Alex Dean
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Old-Topics: Re: changing key behavior
Subject: Re: changing key behavior

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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