[SATLUG] vi bug in Ubuntu

[country]

There was one in SV-R? that used arrow keys and some other things, however,
you could still use the :XXX stuff as well, and if you used vi and were
familiar with it, you could do some serious text ..



On 9/28/07, Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/28/07, twistedpickles wrote:
>
> >  I use vi as my primary editor but when I made the switch to Ubuntu
> using vi
> >  was a pain in the arse.
> >  Navigating with the arrow keys when using vi would introduce and place
> >  different letters of the alphabet in the document.
>
> Vi has never used the arrow keys, at least not by default.  Maybe
> other vi-simulators have, but you should *never* depend on those
> working because you never know when you might accidentally be using a
> different vi-simulator, or one that is configured differently.
>
> If you do vi, then you know hjkl, and you should never, ever be using
> anything else for doing cursor movement.
>
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