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notbrain
notbrain

Reputation: 3396

MacVim Visual Selection Delete moves back 3 extra chars

Using MacVim with https://github.com/carlhuda/janus installed, when I select a visual or insert block and hit backspace, the cursor jumps back an extra 3 spaces. Anyone else see this? Makes it real annoying to do my favorite shift-cmd-up to select and delete empty lines.

set backspace=indent,eol,start

is the only reference to backspace I see in vimrc and gvimrc.

Selection made:

Made selection with mouse or shift-arrow

After hitting backspace:

Where the cursor ends up after backspace key

Anyone know of a quick way to fix this? I'm working through http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Backspace_and_delete_problems to see if any of the remedies there can help but I don't see anything at first glance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 460

Answers (3)

markquezada
markquezada

Reputation: 8535

I know this question is a little old, but the two previous answers led me in the right direction. Looks like snipMate was the culprit.

Edit this file:

 ~/.vim/after/plugin/snipMate.vim

And comment out this line:

snor <bs> b<bs>

This solved the issue for me.

Upvotes: 2

Paul Baumgart
Paul Baumgart

Reputation: 397

Removing snipMate seemed to do the trick for me.

Upvotes: 1

Raimondi
Raimondi

Reputation: 5303

If you're lucky and it's a mapping, :verbose vmap <BS> would tell you where it's being set. Otherwise, you'll have to see if the problem is your vimrc or a plugin, run MacVim from the terminal with mvim -N -u NORC -U NORC to rule your vimrc and gvimrc out, then mvim --noplugin to rule plugins out.

Upvotes: 1

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