Comment 4 for bug 1250997

Thanks for correcting me! I was indeed talking about the state of the _handles_.
Also thanks for pointing out the option in the preferences - I wasn't aware of that.
And you're right; when deleting with 'Del' / 'Backspace' I actually get the desired results!
But I'm used to delete nodes with a 'ctrl+alt+click' which *always* preserves the shape!
I tried with/without the option (also restarted Inkscape).
Seems like there is something buggy after all?

(using Inkscape from standard Ubuntu 13.10 repos: "Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939" )