using up/down/right/left arrow in insert (i) mode wont works

[Ammar WK]

I cant use up/down/right/left arrow key on my Toshiba Tecra M1 when im using vim on running Edgy, the key will change automatically with char A,B,C and D

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

I doubt this has anything to do with xserver. Guessing correct package.

[Shane O'Connell (shaneoc)]

I have the same problem, vim seems to be starting in vi-compatible mode and that causes it.

Here's a relevant forums thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=286963

After reading a bit, it looks like on dapper "set nocompatible" is in the /etc/vim/vimrc file. However on edgy, this line was moved to /usr/share/vim/vim70/debian.vim which is supposed to be included from /etc/vim/vimrc, but this seems to be not working for some reason.

[Shane O'Connell (shaneoc)]

Hmm.. apparently this is happening because by default on edgy vim-tiny is installed instead of vim-full. vim-tiny, when run as vi, turns on compatible mode, but vim-full does not.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/70569

[Ammar WK (ammar)]

yupe, i just installed vim-full and override it, now the vi editor works perfectly

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system (Shane gave an explanation in third comment, and you can read Bug 62980 for more details), but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.