On Tue, August 13, 2013 14:35, Charlie Andrews wrote: > 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.
There was no such change. the backspace option has always been there and if you started Vim in compatible mode, you would see this behaviour. regards, Christian -- -- 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.
