In previous versions of PICO-8, pressing the Backspace key would consistently delete the note on the line immediately above the cursor.

In 0.2.0i, it doesn't seem to consistently do that:

On at least one occasion not captured here, Backspace deleted the effect that had just been added, rather than any notes.

This unpredictability makes it frustrating to work, because I don't know what my inputs will do.

Thanks -- fixed for 0.2.0j

The reason this is happening is clicking on on a note to set the cursor position is now (incorrectly) also selecting the note. So backspace is taken to mean "clear selection". A temporary work-around is to move around with the cursors before pressing backspace.

Thanks muchly!

I ... don't want to get into an argument about linguistics? That seems very off-topic, I wasn't writing for a formal audience, and I think my meaning was clear.

I know that but I was trying to make it a little more clear @packbat. Sorry if I offended you

If a word's not in your dialect, that's fine, and if you don't know what a word means, you can ask -- but you know what it means. You offered up two different synonyms for what it means.

Don't correct people's language if they don't ask you to. It's disrespectful.