Google has received a lot of feedback about its decision to switch the keyboard shortcut for going back in Chrome -- from the backspace key to alt + the left arrow key -- starting in Chrome 52, which ...

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 ...