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Asked: 2026-05-22T16:41:23+00:00

I see a few entries here about making Shift-Tab work in vim , but

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I see a few entries here about making Shift-Tab work in vim, but none of them addresses the failure when it’s in Cygwin, running at a Windows command prompt. In that environment, Shift-Tab works for me exactly like an unshifted tab, and my attempts at remapping have failed:

  • :imap <S-Tab> ^D [ this is a real Ctrl-D, entered with Ctrl-V before it ]
  • :imap [ typed Ctrl-V, Shift-Tab here; got a Tab character inserted ]

So it seems that the Shift modifier is being ignored. Any thoughts about how to proceed? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    That won’t work in the Cygwin console because it sends the same keycode for both Tab and Shift+Tab: ^I.

    You might want to install Cygwin’s mintty terminal emulator, which sends the standard keycode for Shift+Tab: \e[Z.

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