Mac delete key backspace code#

:verbose imap ^H ' insert this with Ctrl+V then Ctrl+H :verbose imap ' show insert-mode mapping for Backspace key You can check if there are any mappings set, and where they came from, like this:

Mac delete key backspace code#

This may be unintentional Vim sees CTRL-H as a backspace (because CTRL-H is the ASCII code for a backspace), so you also cannot map anything to that. Your backspace key may be broken due to a bad mapping which has been loaded into Vim. So, if you don't want to spend the time to fix your settings, you might be able to work around your problems using ctrl+backspace instead of backspace. vimrc will change t_kD from the correct ^[[3~ to the incorrect ^H.ДЇor many terminal emulators, Backspace will send either or, and Ctrl-Backspace will emit the other. For most modern terminal emulators, sends ^? and sends ^[[3~ - and putting :fixdel into your. In particular, this will break things for Linux users, and for any other Unix system that has 'seen the light'.

This is, at best, horrifically misleading. If your delete key terminal code is wrong, but the code for backspace is alright, you can put this in your vimrc: :fixdel This works no matter what the actual code for backspace is. If backspace doesn't work properly in insert mode, e.g. There's also a bug in xterm (at least v224) that may bring other users into the same backspace problem. See :helpВ 'backspace' Strange characters are inserted Д«ackspace just puts weird characters in my file. Set backspace=2 ' make backspace work like most other programs not inserting a ^?), but won't delete over line breaks, or automatically-inserted indentation, or the place where insert mode started: 1 Backspace key won't move from current lineД«ackspace key won't move from current line Д«ackspace works in Insert mode (e.g.