Re: Fedora Core 4 and delete keys

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From: Michael Stevens
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 4 and delete keys
Date: 15:24 on 12 Jul 2005
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:20:56AM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 mstevens@xxxx.xxx wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Install FC4. Start an xterm. Run vim. Go into insert mode. Type hello
> > world. Press backspace. A happy '^?' will appear on your screen. Press
> > it again and you get ANOTHER ONE.
> 
> Ironically, this is still one of the reasons I don't use Red Hat --
> that, and the fact that they used to rebind 'esc' in /etc/inputrc to
> somehow make vi not work.  "Oh, people actually _use_ that old thing?"
> 
> Yeah, they've theoretically had those fixed for years, I'm sure, but
> it's been a tough stain for me to look past.  Few computer problems are
> more painful than these kinds of problems.

They've actually been working for me between Redhat 7.3 -> FC3, it's
exciting new breakage in FC4.

We won't even talk about the OpenOffice 2 betas they're shipping as
standard, with Exciting! New! Flaky!

Or the bizarre Java/ipv6 breakage (not tested this one personally, but
been told about it)
There's stuff above here

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