VI arrow keys behaviour

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 16 August 2007 04:37:44 am 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.

Fortunately there is a solution.

Install the "vim full version" by installing these packages and you'll be 
good:

vim 		(which is what you may be using now)
vim-common
vim-full

I think you're either using vim or "vim-tiny"
Here's what I have installed now and my arrow keys work as expected:
vim
vim-common
vim-full
vim-tiny
vim-gui-common
vim-runtime

I'm not sure if (K/X/E) Ubuntu (mint) installs the runtime or tiny by default 
but I do know that when I installed the vim-full things worked like I thought 
they should.


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Howard Coles Jr.
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