Re: vi issue in etch

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works
> correctly. In vi though everything is messed up! The standard shortcuts
> don't work. While following a tutorial, after an apt-get of a series of
> apps I noticed it start working like it should?
> 
> Is there something specific to Debian I am unaware of?

Could be. But your question lacks important details such as what exactly you
meant by "everything is messed up", "standard shortcuts". Please be
specific.

While you are at it, consider using vim instead of vi unless you have a good
reason not to do so.

hth
raju

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