Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Gene Smith Subject: Re: Backspace in gvim [SOLVED] Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:37:29 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Gene Smith wrote, On 06/13/2005 12:28 AM: > This may not be related in cygwin but since that's where I am seeing it > I will go ahead and ask. I am running gvim 6.3 windows version and > cygwin latest version on XP and 2k which I just installed. Backspace in > insert mode used to delete the char to the left (possibly gvim 6.2 on > linux and another older cygwin on 2k). I have always :set bs=2 in > gvimrc. Now when I hit backspace in insert mode the cursor just moves > over the characters and does not seem to affect them. However, when I go > to command mode (hit escape) the characters are then removed. Looking at > the gvim/vim documenation it never seems to mention that backspace can > delete anything other than possibly eol to joint two lines, nor does it > mention the deferred delete on hitting escape. However, for years I have > used backspace as a immediate delete key, as you can do on the command > line vi mode and as backspace works in the email editor I am typing into > now. Someone in a previous post dismissed this as "the way gvim works" > but no mention was made of the deferred delete occurring when command > mode entered. Anyone here know anything about this or seen this? > > Tks, > -gene Finally found this which explains it (see last posting): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/33436 Since I am *now* using a "system wide" gvimrc, and not ~/.gvimrc, which defaults to vi compatible mode. Have to "set nocp" in $VIM/gvimrc. So not cygwin related as I expected. Now with bs=2, backspace in insert mode deletes to left and delete deletes to right like before. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/