On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:29:58PM -0700, Daniel Dilts wrote:
> I’m not new to Vim, but I’m having trouble even thinking of what to call
> this to search the help for.  I have a  new (relatively speaking) copy of
> Vim on my computer, and insert mode is set so that you cannot edit anything
> you didn’t put into it in that insertion.  I know that there is a setting to
> make it so that you can then edit the entire file, rather than just what you
> added, but I can’t remember what that setting is.  Anybody know?

These will do it.  You really only need to set backspace=start, but
you'll probably want the other items also.

set nocompatible
set backspace=indent,eol,start

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Byron Clark

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