Spaces as tabs and backspace behavior in Vim

Question

In my .vimrc I have:

set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set expandtab

set to use 4 spaces instead of tab when I hit the Tab button. But when I hit

Answer 1

You can try using ^T and ^D.

:help i_CTRL-T
:help i_CTRL-D

These allow to insert or delete (more like backspace though) a number of spaces equal to shiftwidth.