Why does < C> (CTRL+A) not work under gvim on windows?

Question

I\'m trying to use the < C-a> (CTRL+A) shorcut under vim to increment a variable under the cursor. This works fine under vim running on Linux. Howev

Answer 1

in the current version of mswin.vim provided with gvim, the file checks for the value of a global named skip_loading_mswin; If set, the rest of the file is skipped; thus it is sufficient to add

let skip_loading_mswin=1

to $HOME/_vimrc and normal vim bindings will be restored the next time you start vim.