Have you tried launching from the cmd line qgis --noplugins and test if you can edit like that? You can use OSGEO4W shell to run -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/qgis-2-X-crashing-tp5134977p5135033.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.