"Joey S. Eisma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 02:26 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> Message: 4 >> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:47:42 +0800 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zak B. Elep) >> Subject: Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu >> To: plug@lists.linux.org.ph >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> "Joey S. Eisma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > i got weird behaviour using my keyboard when doing a vi: up arrow >> > key displays A, right arrow displays C, down arrow displays B, left >> > arrow D. >> >> Do these letters follow a `^[[' character sequence? If so, that's >> perfectly normal; you could reproduce the same behavior in a CLI >> interface that doesn't implement command line buffer lists, >> e.g. telnet. >> >> I don't know why vi would suddenly display that behavior, however; did >> you run some previous tool that changed the terminal's behavior >> (e.g. ncurses apps that didn't reset the terminal, et al?) >> > no. after installation, the first thing i did is to > vi /etc/apt/sources.list > > arrow keys has been behaving like that eversince. i didn't see this > behaviour from versions prior to 6.10.
I believe that's because vi in Edgy is vim-tiny; before that, vi was the full vim. Difference being vim-tiny is a subset of vim, and that subset excludes keyboard cursor key translation to the standard vi cursor movement keys (h,j,k,l). Simply apt-get install vim-full, do update-alternatives --config vi and select vim to get back cursor key mapping. -- JM Ibanez Senior Software Engineer Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
