Backspace in vi / vim on Cygwin broken?

If your delete key terminal code is wrong, but the code for backspace is alright, you can put this in your .vimrc:

:fixdel

This works no matter what the actual code for backspace is.

Submitted by Chris Herberte on Fri, 2007-02-16 16:19

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