[ubuntu-us-nm] Vi question.

Eric Krieger grammatoncleric at ubuntu.com
Sat Dec 6 13:13:32 GMT 2008


Try inserting...

set esckeys

...in your ~/.vimrc.

If lost your arrow keys and you are running a linux or unix vm you need
to add the following to your /etc/vmware/config...

'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true' 

I recently ran into this.




On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 22:28 -0700, w robbi wrote:
> OK, I am failing on my google search skills.
> 
> How do you modify the environment to enable arrow keys when in edit
> mode?  It is driving me crazy to need to exit insert mode before
> moving the cursor.
> 
> 
> thank you,
> 
> Wes.
> 

- Eric 

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