Fix VIM the backspace problem in Windows

Posted on July 12, 2010
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Working in Windows XP now days, I found a strange behavior in gVIM as it wasn’t allowing me to use backspace when editing source files with indenting! After googling a bit I found a solution by adding the following to my .vimrc file…

:set backspace=indent,eol,start

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