Vim Urxvt arrowkey-problem

obi · 2016-03-09 19:43:43

Hi, I am having a problem with my vim. When I switch to insert mode and use my arrow keys, vim will just insert A, B, C, or D and a newline. This has nothing to do with my config, as I already tried running a freshly installed vim without a .vimrc-file and ran into the same problem. Strangely, everything works just fine when I run vim with root privileges. Also, vim only behaves like this if its executed in urxvt. When i run vim using the gnome-terminal for instance, it works fine, regardless of the user privileges.

Last edited by obi (2016-03-09 19:54:17)

alphaniner · 2016-03-09 20:01:33

That's normal behaviour for legacy vi on Unix systems. I don't know if I've ever seen it in vi on Arch, but I'm sure I've never seen it in vim. So for starters, are you sure you're running vim and not vi?

obi · 2016-03-09 21:28:33

Yes, I am 100% sure, because vi is not even installed on my system. I'm also using the newest version of vim.

jasonwryan · 2016-03-09 21:43:23

Please paste your .vimrc

alphaniner · 2016-03-09 21:43:56

Yeah, I didn't see your edit before posting; that pretty much ruled out my suspicion.

Is there anything in the environment related to terminal that changes when sudo is used: 'env' vs 'sudo env' ?

obi · 2016-03-09 21:49:13

Here's my .vimrc:

set nocompatible

"---Visuals---

syntax enable

set background=dark
colorscheme default

set encoding=utf8

set t_Co=256

set showmatch
set mat=2

set number

"---Text & Indents---

set expandtab
set smarttab
set ai
set si

set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4

"---Filetypes---

filetype on
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.rs set filetype=rust

bstaletic · 2016-03-09 21:49:59

This sounds to me like you've set compat in your .vimrc.

obi · 2016-03-09 21:54:07

alphaniner wrote:

Is there anything in the environment related to terminal that changes when sudo is used: 'env' vs 'sudo env' ?

No, I don't think so.

jasonwryan · 2016-03-09 21:59:48

bstaletic wrote:

This sounds to me like you've set compat in your .vimrc.

This was my thought (and what it defaults to without a config); but OP has edited their first post to say it works fine in other terminals, just not in Urxvt.

What is the value of $TERM in urxvt?

alphaniner · 2016-03-09 22:04:05

Also, OP originally said he tried without .vimrc...

obi · 2016-03-09 22:12:24

Hah, that solved my problem, ty guys.
I have just set TERM to 'xterm-256color', and works.

jasonwryan · 2016-03-09 22:14:45

Don't set your TERM: it will just break more things... Your terminal should be able to pick up the appropriate terminfo, unless you have forced it somwehere in your shell initialisation files.

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Vim Urxvt arrowkey-problem

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