Hi Jim,
Sorry I didn't reply to the list earlier (only mailing you privately!). Still getting
used to this muttly beast of a mail client ;)
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:27:51PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:24:57PM -0700, I wrote:
> > I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's
> > line editor, as I have it in all my other tools.
>
> The sole response I've had to this question was from someone who
> thought I was referring to the editor used to write the content of
> a piece of mail, in his case vi.
Yup that was me, I only half understood what you meant...
> I'm sorry if I wasn't clear: I'm referring to the "editor" that
> manipulates the single line at the bottom of the screen, when, say,
> you want to edit an address, or the text of a command. As I understand
> it from the manual, 2.2 "Editing Input Fields" this "line editor" is
> called the "editor" for purposes of binding functions to it.
>
> So, that's what I'm trying to remap Control-H in, THAT editor.
What type of terminal/console are you using?
If I understand you correctly, you mean that when you type something like:
:set bleh=<backspace>
in the line editor in mutt, it comes out as:
:set bleh=^H
???
Or not?
If you do mean this, I had similar problems in various applications whilst using Putty
in a ssh session. For example in 'vi' when in line editor mode I couldn't delete
backwards correctly - the backspace key producing '^H' instead of deleting the char to
the left of the cursor. I fixed this by changing the keyboard settings for the
current putty session (an option exists to map the backspace key to '^H') and all was
fine.
If however you're not talking about using something like putty or another terminal
emulator, fraid I can't help - never used a dumb terminal...
Perhaps some more info about what system you're using might help.
Best Regards,
Jez
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