Re: vim & kde questions SOLVED

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:18 pm, Michael Shuler wrote:
> On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> > Mark Neidorff wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Dunno, I don't see that kind of behavior from my Vim...
>
> When calling the default install of vim-tiny as 'vim <file>', I believe
> arrow-key navigation works, however, when calling as 'vi <file>', vim
> behaves as the old-school vi (h,j,k,l) and the use of arrow-keys will
> output control characters.
>
> dpkg -l vim* |grep ^ii
>
> Will likely only show vim-tiny installed.
>
> aptitude install vim
>
> Will get you the full-featured vim software and 'vi <file>' should work
> by default with arrow navigation.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Michael

Thanks.  That solved 2 annoyances.  Its too bad about the vim install.  
Another of those things about Etch that doesn't make sense to me.

Mark