On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:18 pm, Michael Shuler wrote:
> On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> > Mark Neidorff wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Dunno, I don't see that kind of behavior from my Vim...
>
> When calling the default install of vim-tiny as 'vim <file>', I believe
> arrow-key navigation works, however, when calling as 'vi <file>', vim
> behaves as the old-school vi (h,j,k,l) and the use of arrow-keys will
> output control characters.
>
> dpkg -l vim* |grep ^ii
>
> Will likely only show vim-tiny installed.
>
> aptitude install vim
>
> Will get you the full-featured vim software and 'vi <file>' should work
> by default with arrow navigation.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Michael
Thanks. That solved 2 annoyances. Its too bad about the vim install.
Another of those things about Etch that doesn't make sense to me.
Mark
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