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vim package

  1. Bug #70569
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 70569

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Robert North (russetrob) wrote :

I found this behaviour extremely annoying, but I cannot ever remember this bug on 80/90's HP, or Sun workstations.

Maybe that's because those companies, or the sysadmins mapped the arrow keys to something else.

If vim_tiny has to be kept, can I suggest doing 2 things....

1. Mapping arrow keys to something less annoying.
2. Including full full vi help in the ":help" command.
        my immediate response was to look up help.
        the help I found there was confusing.

An example of mapping arrow keys is here:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/vi.html

Another option would be to map arrow keys to nothing at all!

Another hint that this is a bug people have resolved is here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sgi/faq/apps/section-24.html
This suggests that at least for original vi, arrow mappings were available, but on slow terminals exhimited same behaviour as Ubuntu.