Re: Updating to 7.4 broke backspace

Hmmm I never had the behavior before 7.4. I didn't change anything in my .vimrc either.

On Aug 13, 2013 9:11 AM, "Christian Brabandt" <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

On Tue, August 13, 2013 14:35, Charlie Andrews wrote:
> On Monday, August 12, 2013 10:31:07 AM UTC-4, Ben Fritz wrote:
>> On Monday, August 12, 2013 7:37:35 AM UTC-5, Charlie Andrews wrote:
>> > I built Vim 7.4 yesterday, and I am unable to backspace in Insert mode
>> or delete (d) in Command mode. I rolled back to 7.3 and everything
>> works fine. Is this a known issue?
>> >
>> > A little info:
>> >
>> > OS: OSX 10.8.4
>> > Shell: zsh
>> > Terminal Emulator: iTerm 2
>> > Vim plugins:
>> >   - pathogen
>> >   - powerlin
>>
>> Have you tried without any plugins or config, with "vim -N -u NONE -i
>> NONE"?
>>
>> I assume you know about backspace not being able to delete stuff you
>> didn't just insert, unless you set the 'backspace' option to sane
>> values. But you also mentioned the 'd' command which should always work.
>>
>> Is 'modifiable' set to on? Does Vim give any sort of error message? What
>> specific full command did you use for delete? E.g. dw, dap, dd, etc.
>
> I actually didn't know about that change of backspace. I didn't find that
> on a cursory web search. Do you have any resources on this change or why
> they did it? I find it odd.

There was no such change. the backspace option has always been there
and if you started Vim in compatible mode, you would see this behaviour.

regards,
Christian

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