I am certain that I must be forgetting something obvious. I am not seeing the contextual link to "edit view" as I would expect. I don't remember if this is something that has to be turned on or if for some reason this feature is not available in BackdropCMS (and I forgot that fact). I seem to recall it being there before, but I could be thinking of D7 projects.
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Based upon the discussion on Github, I think the problem is specific to the Basis theme. I've not yet had time to test it in other themes.
My experience with the problem was using the Basis theme.
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Looks like a bug:
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2690
Also, I realized that contextual "configure views" link is available on blocks. It's just not showing up on views pages. Hopefully, we can get this fixed soon.
I found this thread while searching for something else. Just for posterity, it looks like this bug was fixed in 1.12.
On my page views running 1.12.x-dev there is a contextual Configure View link in the very upper right corner of the page. This is in the Bootstrap Lite theme.
Looks like a bug:
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2690
Also, I realized that contextual "configure views" link is available on blocks. It's just not showing up on views pages. Hopefully, we can get this fixed soon.