05/08/06 18:16 , Categories: Gentoo

Vim 7 has been released with a ton of bug fixes, and some new and exciting features. The unstable 7.0 packages have been committed to the Portage tree for your enjoyment.

Linux.com has a nice article on some of the new features. You can expect to find a tabbed interface (:help tabe), spell checking (:help spell), and code completion (:help compl-omni-filetypes).

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Comment from: Vim7 Backspace Fixer [Visitor] · http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1491&rating=life_changing

For everyone having problems with backspace not working in vim 7, try this:

:imap ^?

Note that
- "^?" is the bad character that backspace happens to be inserting.
- "" is Control-V (the modifier that does a literal insert of the next character you input)
- "" is Control-H (or what backspace should be)

So you're literally typing:

:, i, m, a, p, space, backspace, space, control-v, control-h, enter.

You got that?

All the stuff that people have been posting about fixdel and loadkeys wasn't working for me, but this simple imap statement did the trick. Please spread the word.

05/13/06 @ 05:26

Comment from: Vim7 Backspace Fixer [Visitor] · http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1491&rating=life_changing

You should also add:

cmap ^? ^H

in addition to

imap ^? ^H

as I tried to describe above.

(jsb)

05/13/06 @ 05:38

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