Hi everyone

I have two questions.

The first one: I'm sure this is a very old question. I've found many instances of this on various forums and blogs, but none of the suggested methods seem to work for me. I am using putty to connect to a Solaris machine (SunOS 5.9). In the bash shell, the delete and backspace keys work as they do in Windows, for instance. But when in vi, the delete key capitalizes the character under it, or prints the tilde character, if in insert mode. I tired various things in .vimrc and .terminfo/x/xterm. I also downloaded and compiled vim and got the same result.

Putty configuration is: Backspace key sends Control-H. Home and end-keys: rxvt. The function keys and keypad: xterm R6

echo $TERM shows xterm.

stty -a shows earse = ^?

Any clues? I've even tried using emacs and putting several fixes into .emacs, but no success.

 

The second one: I compiled vim 7.3 and when I run it, I can't get help. For example, if I try :help fixdel, it displays an error message E433: No tags file and E149: Sorry, no help for fixdel. What do you think I missed?

Thanks and best regards

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Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences