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Vi arrow keys not workingVi arrow keys not working
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2007 - 5:26pm
UPDATE: The reason is that vi is old and not so great, and the new Vim that replaces it is set to run in compatibility mode (reproducing vi's old way of doing things) by default.
Put a line:
set nocompatible
in your ~/.vimrc file.
This FAQ is pretty useless, since no one actually has vi anymore I don't think, so there's no reason to suffer like it says:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sgi/faq/apps/section-24.html
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why don't arrow keys work in vi
vim nocompatible
make vim not stupid
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