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Backspace does not work in Cygwin

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Mar 15, 202631647 views

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I just installed Cygwin and the BACKSPACE functionality is not there, i.e. when I hit the Backspace key, I get a space. I've been trying to research this issue on Google, but did not find anything conclusive.

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In my case backspace was not at all working after creating blank ~/.vimrc. Following change made it work Put: set bs=2 in .vimrc Found this at http://linux-journal.blogspot.com/2005/04/fix-vim-backspace-doesnt-work.html

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Backspace does not work in Cygwin

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