I would recommend treading carefully with the 'set -o vi' as it can be a real pain if you are not prepared for it. For example, if you are used to pressing the up arrow for your command history, set -o vi will take this away. You will have to use your vi keys for this (escape k and j for up and down). I prefer 'set -o emacs' to allow me to use the arrow keys for my history.
As for the ^H, as others have suggested stty erase ^H should fix the problem in your current terminal. You should be able to set it in your .bashrc, so that it will be persistent across sessions.

In reply to Re^2: STDIN Odd Bevahior in Linux Environments by Damashii
in thread STDIN Odd Bevahior in Linux Environments by bichonfrise74

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