VI arrow keys behaviour

[Paul Lemmons]

Paul Varjak wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When I'm editing a file with vi under ubuntu 7.04 and I'm in insert
> mode, if I try to move around with the arrow keys before pressing
> ESCAPE every press of an arrow key makes appear a strange char into my
> file.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this? I've used VI for years in many linux
> distributions and commercial Unix and this never happened before.
>
> Thanks,
> Salva.
>
>   
I don't normally do "Me Too" posts but this particular problem drives me 
crazy. I use it within Konsole on a standard install on a laptop. If 
anyone has solved this I would love to hear of it.