On Jul 26, 12:47 pm, Björn Winckler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:02 , Jim Whitehead wrote:
>
> > Previously, I was able to highlight a block in visual mode and then
> > press the delete key on my keyboard (standard macbook pro keyboard) to
> > delete the block. This no longer works with snapshot 60 under Lion.
> > The only backspace related things I have are:
>
> > set nocompatible                               " Break compatibility with 
> > old versions
> > set backspace+=indent,eol,start            " Backspace over anything in 
> > insert
> > mode
>
> > Has something changed that I need to update?
>
> This used to be hardcoded and I recently got rid of all hardcoded bindings 
> from the source code.  You can restore this functionality by adding the line
>
> vmap <Backspace> d
>
> to your .vimrc file.
>
> I think this should be the default behavior.  I'll add this mapping to 
> MacVim's vimrc file.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out to me.
>
> Björn

d and <Del> doing the same thing in Visual mode are part of standard
Vim, see :help v_d

IMHO no vimrc ought to be necessary to establish that synonymity.


Best regards,
Tony.
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