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I happened to find that we may open 'Terminal windows' in Vim and am happy to stop using terminal app. (It's available in v8 and v9)
However, when I have a typing mistake, pressing Delete key does not go backward and rub it out. Instead, it produces a strange letter 'ÿ'.
The only way I can fix such mistakes is pressing Ctrl-H (but this is tedious).
I cannot find documentation addressing this issue.
I tried to remap but both failed:
:tmap <ÿ> <c-h>
:tmap <del> <c-h>
Any suggestion?
I've just got the answer from a colleague. The following mapping works:
:tmap <BS> <c-h>
Delete key: the key you were likely pressing is called Backspace, which would explain why mapping <del> didn't work but <bs> does.
<del> key and no <bs> key. (It's why I marked 'MacVim' at the title - it's a Vim port for Mac platform.) I have been working in Linux for 20 years. We used to buy desktops or laptops made for Windows. We always have the <bs> key above the <enter> key. There is also <del> somewhere else. Two years ago, I changed to adopt Mac as my working platform for some reason. I had hard time for 1 year to adapt myself to Mac - quite a lot was about the differences in keyboard.
Oct 10, 2022 at 3:34
<del> functionality you have to hold down fn while you press it. Try picking any of the other keyboards in the dropdown on the linked page: different label, same key.
<Delete>were invisible due to the way this site formats things. If you don't want to use the<kbd>notation, you need to surround things like that with backticks: `<kbd>markup - it's wonderful. The backticks used to mark a CODE piece up is also universally useful. (I used to write articles in Facebook. But since 10 years ago FB removed its limited markup ability (undocumented), I have not been aware that markup writing is so much well supported in other worlds!)