On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:29:57 AM UTC-5, Ivan Vecerina wrote: > Hi, > Since I upgraded to Vim 8, I am confronted with a new behavior that I find > annoying: > > According to how I enter insert mode, I am restricted in terms of what I can > edit. > For instance, if I want to remove the last character of a line, I would type: > A <backspace> <Esc> > But now, after I enter edit mode with A, I am only able to append text to the > end of the line. > > How can I disable this constraining of the editable range in insert mode? > > Thanks, > Ivan
Add "set backspace+=start", or an equivalent command, to your .vimrc to enable the behavior you want. I'm not sure why the version 8 upgrade would have caused this for you. The main change, of adding a set of defaults that get automatically sourced, should *include* this option, not remove it. Perhaps your configuration is setting the 'compatible' option somewhere? If you're interested in tracking it down, you can use the command ":verbose set backspace?" to see which script file last set the option. -- -- 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/d/optout.
