Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-18 Thread Bopolissimus X Platypus Jr
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:21 +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > First, they removed Emacs, and now they cripple vim! What a > shame! And then the default editor is nano. It's probably a usability thing. Ubuntu desktop aims to be a non-geek desktop. Only geeks like vi and it's mode-full descendants.

Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Joey S. Eisma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> no. after installation, the first thing i did is to >> vi /etc/apt/sources.list > > 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 v

Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread JM Ibanez
JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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-

Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread JM Ibanez
"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 be

[plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread Joey S. Eisma
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]&

Re: [plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
"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 repro

[plug] weird arrow key behaviour in xubuntu

2007-02-14 Thread Joey S. Eisma
hi! im running xubuntu 6.10 on my laptop (pIII). 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. what can be done to have them behave as expected? thanks! joey __