Vitor Rodrigues » vimrc http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:05:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Backspace in Vim http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2006/11/24/backspace-in-vim/ http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2006/11/24/backspace-in-vim/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:06:27 +0000 vitor http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2006/11/24/backspace-in-vim/ One of the things I like to have in VIM is the backspace key working just like in all the other editors. I like the backspace key to delete the characters in in the right-to-left direction and delete also the line breaks when it gets to the beginning of a line. However, most of default vimrc files I find don’t have this enabled. Sometimes the backspace doesn’t delete at all, other times it doe not delete the line breaks…. arghh…

To have the backspace key in VIM behaving just like in all the other text editors,  just add the following line to your vimrc file:

set backspace=indent,eol,start
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