On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Cesar Romani wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Actually when I press backspace, it behaves like the cursor left and > when I press escape the characters left behind are deleted. > CTRL-h cannot delete either, neither :fixdel can fix the backspace. > But When I create a .vimrc file with null content in my home directory, > the backspace works, strange!
That's actually the expected behavior; see :help compatible-default and :help cpo-v The upshot is that when you don't have a vimrc, vim defaults to vi compatibility, and "Backspaced characters remain visible on the screen in Insert mode," and when you do have a vimrc you no longer get the somewhat irritating vi-compatible behavior; instead "the characters are erased from the screen right away." ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
