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Re: Backspace problems in XTerm



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On Thursday, September  6 at 11:07 PM, quoth Kumar Appaiah:
> Many thanks for the detailed response, and yes, your suggestion 
> handles my problem perfectly! :-)

Excellent!

> Is there a way of directly entering ^? in an editor? Right now, I did 
> echo <Ctrl+V><BackSpace> > outfile, and copy pasted the contents of 
> outfile from emacs into my muttrc. Is there a better way?

Of course! In most decent editors (including vim, which is the *most* 
decent editor ;) ), you can do the same thing. In insert mode, type 
<Ctrl+V><BackSpace>!

Hmmm, I wonder if that gets through email well... 

~Kyle
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