Well. In case you have not stumbled across the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18115644/vim-has-many-ui-bugs-on-cygwin-on-windows-8" target="_blank">corresponding StackOverflow post</a>, and if you have always wondered why vim does not work properly in cygwin, just
```bash
[rattle@ALICE:~]$ cat .vimrc
set nocompatible
set backspace=indent,eol,start
```
and your worries will be over.