On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Tobias Pflug wrote:
> hello list,
>
> I just compiled vim 7.0 to give it a try. One of the first things I
> noticed was that backspace stopped working. I checked :he fix
> and tried everything mentioned there. But neither fix/fixdel nor
> fixing the keycoda via:
>
> echo "keycode 14 = BackSpace" | loadkeys
>
> had any effects.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> regards,
> Tobi
In what way is it not working?
If you are compiling your own version of vim after getting used to
someone else's distribution, you may be missing a system vimrc file that
was included in the distribution. In particular, try
:set backspace=indent,eol,start
:help 'backspace'
HTH --Benji Fisher
