Re: Updating to 7.4 broke backspace

On 8/13/13 7:29 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 13/08/13 18:35, Charlie Andrews wrote:
> [...]
>> All my command mode stuff was working fine and yes, setting 'backspace'
>> worked. I'm still curious as to why my backspace was working before. I
>> just checked and I have no other '.vimrc' file besides the one in my
>> home directory. Is there somewhere else settings are kept? Just curious,
>> at this point 7.4 is working with the 'set backspace=2'.
>>
>> -Charlie
>>
>
> The file $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim contains a lot of useful
> settings, and among them the line
>
> set backspace=indent,eol,start
>
> If your vimrc sourced it before and now doesn't, or if it still tries
> to source it but at a location where it doesn't exist anymore (for
> instance, the equivalent of $VIM/vim73 which would be the $VIMRUNTIME
> of Vim 7.3 but not of Vim 7.4), that would explain why suddenly the
> backspace key refused to go past a line break or past the start of
> insert (whichever it meets first).
>
> To find the vimrc_example.vim at the proper location for whichever
> version of Vim you may be using, use one (and only one) of
> :source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
> or
> :runtime vimrc_example.vim
> They are equivalent except in the rare case where you would have a
> file of the same name in ~/.vim or in $VIM/vimfiles
>
> I still see no explanation to your stated impossibility to delete with
> the d command, however, unless you tried it in a file with
> 'nomodifiable' set on it, e.g. a helpfile. Ben repeatedly asked which
> exact d{motion} command you used where, but you didn't answer.
>
> See
> :help 'backspace'
> :help $VIMRUNTIME
> :help :source
> :help :runtime
> :help 'modifiable'
>
>
> Best regards;
> Tony.
the 'd' command worked fine. I did not test fully. Also, I believe
everyone's assumptions were true that I was sourcing some other config
file. Thanks everyone!

-Charlie

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