strange vi

[justin cunningham]

Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and
noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi.  Is this
because the keyboard is misconfiged?   I think I remember choosing the
default us qwerty as ok but I'm sshed into the machine from my laptop
and the arrow keys don't work.  Though they work at the console.  My
laptops arrow keys work via ssh on lots of potato machines so, what
gives?   Regards, justin