Re: vim & kde questions
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.
Regards, John
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