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Kardell

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From: London a new Babylon

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 225

Vim issue

Hello everyone
Recently I experience some issue with Vim. It does not allow me to properly edit a file.
Direction buttons instead of proper cursor movement produces "ABCD" letters in new lines.
There are more strange behaviours. The only way to prevent file spoilage is to just close Vim without saving.
I reinstalled Vim several times and both normal and root user terminals are affected. New user is affected too.

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BaconPie

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Registered: 2010-08-11

Posts: 209

Re: Vim issue

Are you sure you are running vim and not vi. Vi isn't designed for arrow keys so you get that exact output when running it.