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Re: vim & kde questions



On 21:19 Tue 14 Aug     , John K Masters wrote:
> 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.
> 

Or on second thoughts, set nocompatible in .vimrc

Regards, John
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