[Discuss] arrow keys in vi

taras taras.judge at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 26 14:40:13 PST 2006


R. McFarlane wrote:
>     Okay, I'm stumped.
>
>     The arrow keys on my laptop work fine in vi on a remote Ubuntu 
> 6.06 server I administer.
>
>     The arrow keys on my laptop DO NOT work fine in vi on a remote 
> Ubuntu 6.10 server I administer.
>
>     Uh, what gives? Yes, I've googled but what I've found so far does 
> not help. :(
Check the version of vim on the 6.10 server. The bright burger eating 
minds at Ubuntu have decided to ship a brain damaged version of vim by 
default.

Taras



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