vim & kde questions

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

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?

Second...kde.  I like KDE.  When I saw the first versions, I thought it was 
great.  Moved me away from pure terminals in a hurry.  Now that I'm using the 
newest version, its got an annoyance that I'd like to shut off.  Whenever I 
put a CD or DVD in the CD/DVD drive, I get a pop up menu on the screen asking 
me what I'd like to do now.  To me, that's an annoyance and a waste of CPU 
cycles that I'd like to get rid of, but I couldn't find an option in the KDE 
configuration to turn that off.  How do I turn off the looking for a CD/DVD 
in the drive?

Thanks,

Mark