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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:50:58 -0800
From: Hanif Ladha <hanif@ladha.com>
To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: backspace in vim
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Dale Morris (dlm@well.com) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what I need to add to vimrc or setup files to get vim
> to backspace properly. Someone tole me a quick hack for my vimrc, it
> worked great, but I've lost it.

You could try 

backspace=indent,eol,start

also 

:help after invoking vim


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