On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 4:39:27 PM UTC+2, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Ivan! > > On Mi, 05 Okt 2016, 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? > > I am not sure, why this happens for you. Please check the output of > `:verbose :set bs?` > > To fix it, you most likely want something like `:set bs=2` in your > .vimrc. Read the help at :h 'bs' > > > Best, > Christian > -- > Wie glücklich viele Menschen wären, wenn sie sich genausowenig um die > Angelegenheiten anderer kümmern würden wie um die eigenen. > -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Indeed - 'backspace' it was. I added an assignment to it in my vimrc file and all is well. Many thanks to you (and Ben), Ivan -- -- 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.
