kubuntu knot3 results

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 17 04:10:16 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-16-09 at 21:00 -0600, Collins Richey wrote: 
> (9) The version of vim supplied with Edgy has reverted to ancient
> behavior. If you enter insert mode, then use the arrow keys to move to
> another line you get a garbage 'b' inserted as a new line. This does
> not happen on Dapper. This was the way actual 'vi' behaved, but I
> haven't encountered this in vim in a long time.

The reason of this was discussed on sounder a few days ago:  Edgy
doesn't come anymore with "vim", but with "vim-tiny" which seems to be a
subset of the vim package we are used to.

If you install that package "vim", then the arrows key will start
working again in vim.

Daniel





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