[olug] Using vi in Ubuntu 10.04

[Sam Tetherow]

Generally these are termcap issues.  Are you using xterm, gnome-terminal 
or the console?
echo $TERM and see what you get back.

	Sam Tetherow

On 08/31/2010 07:24 PM, drpunkerz at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the input. It isn't installed on a VM, though. It isn't placing any characters sometimes while typing and moving the arrow keys seem to not move anything.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Watson<bwatson1979 at gmail.com>
> Sender: olug-bounces at olug.org
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:29
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Using vi in Ubuntu 10.04
>
> Might this Ubuntu instance be in a virtual machine (e.g. VMWare)?
>
> We ran into a similar problem with vim where the arrow keys wouldn't
> work (e.g. the down arrow is a carriage return).  It turns out this
> isn't a problem with vim, but the entire VM (pressing the down arrow
> in bash is a carriage return as well).  We haven't solved the issue
> just yet, but the work around is to SSH into the VM from either the
> guest or other machine on the network and all works as expected.
>
> Ben
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Timothy Goshinski<tgoshinski at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Works fine in my Kubuntu Lucid install.  I made sure I had vim and
>> vim-common as vim-tiny irks me.
>>
>> --
>> "O pointy birds, O pointy pointy, Anoint my head, Anointy-nointy" - S.
>> Martin
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:25 PM,<drpunkerz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone had any issues with vi in 10.04? It seems when going into input
>>> mode it doesn't properly move focus or type properly when pressing the arrow
>>> keys and any other characters on my keyboard. I can use a gedit when I need
>>> to but was wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
>>>
>>> I'm using a Dell XPS M1530 laptop if that is relevant to the issue.
>>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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