Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <039001c437a2$b062ef80$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Tyler Spivey" , References: <001f01c437a0$d26cfeb0$9f0c238e@130SetBC01> Subject: Re: Vim under cygwin console: backspace problem Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:55:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Tyler Spivey wrote: > Hello. > Under windows Xp, backspace doesn't appear to work in vim. > When I backspace, it doesn't delete the character - the character appears to > still be on the screen. as far as I can tell, it moves left. That is correct. It is working as designed. If you want to use vim, try typing "vimtutor" at the shell prompt, and working your way through. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/