Re: Updating to 7.4 broke backspace

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:01:49 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
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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
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> > .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.

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> 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.

Charlie...what exact normal-mode command did you use that didn't delete text?

Does the 'backspace' setting fix your problems in insert mode?

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