On Monday, August 12, 2013 10:31:07 AM UTC-4, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Monday, August 12, 2013 7:37:35 AM UTC-5, Charlie Andrews wrote: > > I built Vim 7.4 yesterday, and I am unable to backspace in Insert mode or > > delete (d) in Command mode. I rolled back to 7.3 and everything works fine. > > Is this a known issue? > > > > A little info: > > > > OS: OSX 10.8.4 > > Shell: zsh > > Terminal Emulator: iTerm 2 > > Vim plugins: > > - pathogen > > - powerlin > > Have you tried without any plugins or config, with "vim -N -u NONE -i NONE"? > > I assume you know about backspace not being able to delete stuff you didn't > just insert, unless you set the 'backspace' option to sane values. But you > also mentioned the 'd' command which should always work. > > Is 'modifiable' set to on? Does Vim give any sort of error message? What > specific full command did you use for delete? E.g. dw, dap, dd, etc.
I actually didn't know about that change of backspace. I didn't find that on a cursory web search. Do you have any resources on this change or why they did it? I find it odd. Thanks for the quick reply, Charlie -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
