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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?
overboming
Posted 2010-03-26T08:48:48.283
Reputation: 337
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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.
ak2
Posted 2010-03-26T08:48:48.283
Reputation: 3 387
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Add
set backspace=indent,eol,start
to your .vimrc file.
6this was infact the solution. not creating an empty $HOME/.vimrc file. Thanks – Felipe Alvarez – 2011-04-06T02:39:35.090
Wiki link, explaining the situation - http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Erasing_previously_entered_characters_in_insert_mode
– Temikus – 2013-04-05T07:28:53.2031The empty .vimrc worked for my friend today. I do not have an empty .vimrc, but I also do not have the backspace settings you indicate above, and it works for me. I believe this indicates that for mintty, the empty .vimrc IS the solution. Or in other words, by having any .vimrc at all, the default settings are changed and in fact fix this issue (unless you .vimrc explicitly overrides them, of course). – Dan – 2013-04-18T23:30:32.087
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Have this same problem with mintty and msys2 by default.
You can just copy the example vimrc config file to your home directory as .vimrc and it fixes everything. It will also enable all the fancy vim features such as syntax highlighting.
cp -vi /usr/share/vim/vim74/vimrc_example.vim ~/.vimrc
Dev
Posted 2010-03-26T08:48:48.283
Reputation: 188
Worked for my friend today. – Dan – 2013-04-18T23:31:03.323