Until today, my installation of Ubuntu was not working well, and due to time constraints I was forced to fall back on my Windows Vista installation. I should have known that the two hours it would have taken me to fix Ubuntu would have been a lot less than the time and patients required to put up with Vista’s crap. To say the least, I am back on Ubuntu now. During my short sabbatical from Ubuntu, I opted to use PuTTY as my ssh client. One of the features I grew fond of was PuTTYs ability to save sessions, so the first thing I did when I booted up Ubuntu was: (more…)
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Backspace in VI with PuTTY
12. March 2009
Recently my Linux install has been giving my issues, and rather taking the time (which I don’t have) to fix it, I fell back onto my Windows Vista installation to get my by while I finish the project I am working on. Since I do not have my wonderful terminal to manage my ssh connections, I have had to use PuTTY. Unfortunately PuTTY and VI were not communicating properly. Whenever I pressed backspace, it would send ^? and echo it as text rather than sending ^H which will backspace a character. (more…)
13. March 2009
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