Re: BACKSPACE does not work on bash3.0

[Jeff Chua]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Chet Ramey wrote:

> Jeff Chua wrote:
> >
> <ESC>k$<BACKSPACE><CTRL>C     <== this works for 1st time only
> <ESC>k$<BACKSPACE><CTRL>C     <== deletes instead of moving left
> > >
> > instead of deleting in "vi overstrike" mode?  It's getting a bit annoying 
> > as I'm so used to using backspace to _back_space_.
>
> You can look at rltty.c:_rl_bind_tty_special_chars() and modify it to
> your heart's content.

Chet,

The following patch checks that if vi-mode is in _overstrike_mode_, then 
it'll execute rl_backward_byte() instead of rl_rubout().

Backspace works now if erase is set to ^H instead of ^?.

Thanks for the pointer to get me started.

Jeff.


--- readline-5.0/text.c Thu Sep  9 11:21:09 2004
+++ readline-5.0/text.c.new     Thu Sep  9 11:21:00 2004
@@ -956,6 +956,9 @@
 rl_rubout (count, key)
      int count, key;
 {
+       if(_rl_keymap == vi_movement_keymap)
+               return (rl_backward_byte(count, key));
+
   if (count < 0)
     return (rl_delete (-count, key));