Something _really_ strange here... Backspace stops working under following conditions: 1. Type something, press Left, press Right. Oops, typed characters are immutable wrt Backspace. Delete, "dd" ,"x" work. OR 2. Type something, press Up, Down. Same story. OR 3. Press Esc in insert mode. Cursor moves, I lose. 3.5 As a consequence, ":w" also breaks Backspace. Once character became immutable, it stays immutable (wrt Backspace). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-rc1-bk5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc1-bk5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 1 2005, 19:45:56)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-competion bitmap-fonts bzlib caps cdr cscope ctype curl curlwrappers dga directfb divx4linux dv encode exifexpat fam ffmpeg flac ftp gif glut gpm iconv icq imagemagick imlib jikes jpeg junit kde lesstif libwww lm_sensors maildir mbox mime mmap mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sharedmem sndfile sock5 sockets spell sse ssl sysfs sysvipc tcltk test tetexthreads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
what does ":set bs?" (no quotes) in vim give you? Does ":set bs=2" fix it?
backspace= It does. Thanks!
