The Vim text editor is beloved by programmers. It’s ludicrously powerful, and lets you accomplish tasks with greater efficiency than you otherwise would. But boy, is it complicated. So complicated ...
I've been using Linux/Vim for about 6 years now and have never had this problem. I just changed jobs, and installed RedHat 7.1. I seem to have lost my history in vim. Hitting up or down arrow yields ...
In VIM type ":set bs=eol,indent,start" to get the backspace key to work like you probably expect it to. To make it permanent so you don't have to type it in everytime, put that line (without the colon ...