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I have installed vim, mintty via cywin on XP. The problem is when I try to hit backspace in VIM edit mode, the cursor move back a character instead of wiping the previous char. How can I tweak this odd behavior?

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Cygwin's vim is configured to behave like traditional vi by default. Just create an empty ~/.vimrc, which causes vim extensions to be enabled and hence the Backspace and arrow keys to behave as expected.

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Thanks, it works for me now:) – overboming Mar 26 '10 at 9:35
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set backspace=indent,eol,start to your .vimrc file.

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this was infact the solution. not creating an empty $HOME/.vimrc file. Thanks – Felipe Alvarez Apr 6 '11 at 2:39
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