Re: Updating to 7.4 broke backspace

On 8/13/13 12:01 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:01:49 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> (Please don't top poste. Only quote the relevant part and put
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>> your answer below it).
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>> On Tue, August 13, 2013 15:28, Charlie Andrews wrote:
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>>> Hmmm I never had the behavior before 7.4. I didn't change anything in my
>>> .vimrc either.
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>> You either have it in your .vimrc already (and vim 7.4 didn't find
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>> it and therefore starts in compatible mode) or some other
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>> system vimrc must have included it.
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> Actually 'backspace' defaults to an empty string even in nocompatible mode. You always need to set it to something not broken.
>
>> You might want to check out the :version output to see, where vim
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>> is looking for .vimrc files and use :scriptnames to find out,
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>> which files have been loaded.
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> Also, regardless of the 'backspace' setting, using 'd' in normal mode ought to work.
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> Charlie...what exact normal-mode command did you use that didn't delete text?
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> Does the 'backspace' setting fix your problems in insert mode?
>
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

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