New helm backspace behavior and renaming of files

[syl20bnr]

With the new backspace behavior #1524 it is hard to rename a file SPC f R.

[CestDiego]

^ this. We should instead embrace C-l to go up a directory

[mbertheau]

My take on this:

1. <backspace> in vim, emacs and most everywhere else deletes one character backwards. I don't know about ido. Making it delete a whole path component is surprising and destructive, since you lose the path that was there.
2. <left> moves the point to the left in vim prompts, some emacs prompts and most everywhere else. I don't know about ido. Making it delete a whole path component is even more surprising, since <left> usually doesn't delete text.

I have seen helm being praised, but since I moved to spacemacs maybe a month ago, helm has been one of the frustrating parts of the experience :/

[cpaulik]

👍 for deleting characters with backspace

[agzam]

👍 for one character at a time, and C-backspace of S-backspace for deleting word by word

[yangj1e]

I am annoyed by this behavior as well. Backspace should delete one character at a time.

[TheBB]

This isn't a problem any more.

[yarray]

Sorry for bothering but is there any plan to change the behaviors of left/right arrow as @mbertheau suggested? It is really not that intuitive for arrows to delete/add something.

Also the I had a hard time with the Neotree rename-mode. Besides the left/right problem, the file name of target node will not appear, which is quite inconvenient since most time renaming involves only minor corrections. Should I open a new issue for this?