On 21:19 Tue 14 Aug , John K Masters wrote:
> On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give
> > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second
> > computer
> > to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move
> > everything else over shortly. Right now, I've got two annoyances that I'd
> > like to solve.
> >
> > First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and I
> > want
> > to navagate up/down/left or right. If I press an arrow key, a new line is
> > opened and a character ("B" or "D" or ...) is put in the first position of
> > that line. If I switch to navagation mode, then the arrow keys work
> > properly. Am I dealing with a vim problem, a terminal problem or a
> > keyboard
> > mapping/character set problem? Whichever it is, how do I solve it?
> >
>
> AFAIK this is not default behaviour for vim on KDE but I use Gnome on my
> desktop. Default install of vim is vim-tiny but I usually install
> vim-full and edit .vimrc to taste. Get it wrong occasionally but that's
> half the fun.
>
> I would suggest you look at your key mappings.
>
Or on second thoughts, set nocompatible in .vimrc
Regards, John
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