Re: about backspace key

On 2010-06-01, taco wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 31, 9:01 pm, taco <tac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > at insert mode, if I enter character and press backspace to delete it, it
> > works. after a second or I have pressed ESC, same as at insert mode,
> > pressing backspace don't delete any character. vim default setting just
> as
> > this like?
> >
>
> Every post made to your original question tells you how to fix this,
> and how to learn more.
>
> Try reading them.

> ok, I am sorry,
>
> "Set backspace
> set backspace=eol,start,indent
>
> add above lines to .vimrc can fix this issue.
>
> I want to learn more, whether vim default setting about backspace is like :
> > at insert mode, if I enter character and press backspace to delete it, it
> > works. after a second or I have pressed ESC, same as at insert mode,
> > pressing backspace don't delete any character. vim default setting just as
> > this like?

Do you mean that pressing backspace does not delete the preceding
character in normal mode? (See ":help vim-modes" for a definition
of normal mode.) If so, that is correct: in normal mode, pressing
backspace is supposed to move the cursor to the left, not delete
anything. See

:help <BS>

for a description of the behavior of the backspace key in normal
mode. That help entry also shows you how to change the behavior to
delete a character.

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HTH,
Gary

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