[ale] help! i broke CTRL-C / I broke DEL

[Jason Day]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:37:30PM -0600, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> YES!!! Awesome solution. That thing Chris Fowler sent was waaay over my head. 
> When I looked up the script that he referenced in Suse 8.1, they gave me 
> directions to edit two other files or something. 
> 
> I didn't want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes tonight.
> 
> Your solution will work on all vi, and I will just have to get used to 
> actually using commands more in vi. But, I still wonder *why* my delete just 
> doesn't work like it does in RedHat (hit delete in edit mode and it takes out 
> characters AND lines).

Put this in your ~/.vimrc:

map <Del> dd

RedHat probably does this in the system-wide vimrc, and Suse does not.

Jason
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