VI arrow keys behaviour

[Thilo Six]

Paul Varjak wrote the following on 16.08.2007 11:37
> 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.

it sounds like:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418732
aka
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/91468


> 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.
> 

bye
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Thilo

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