* Martti Kühne [20.08.2011 00:25]:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Uli Armbruster wrote:

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My problem is, in vim the right and left arrow keys don't do anything in command mode

What locale, what keyboard setting, what terminal emulator/console/terminal multiplexer and what other aspect of the environment might be causing the error? Did you try to replicate the behaviour on a different machine?

mar77i

Thanks to all you so far. So it's - as I expected - a problem on my side (which I found while I was writing this, but still I'll post it completely) I am german, but I have an english system, so: % locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= and a german keyboard setting: in my rc.conf: KEYMAP="de" in my xorg.conf.d/ Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" EndSection By the way, on tty it's the same behaviour, so it's not caused by Xorg I use rxvt-unicode, just tried it in xterm, same behaviour. I also reinstalled vim and vim-runtime. Actually I installed vim and replaced gvim, which I had installed. Nothing's changed. Then I reinstalled gvim and tried it with gvim, still the same. -- la solucion -- Ok, now I found it, I completely removed gvim, so some plugins were uninstalled as well. Then after reinstalling vim everything's fine. This was caused by vim-bufstat-git from the AUR. I actually don't need this, so I'll leave it off the system for now and file a bugreport. An interesting part is, my mail client is mutt, which I configured to use vim as editor. While I was writing this mail, my problem was even solved in this running vim session. Weird stuff! Thanks for your input, I was just to hasty, should have tried to figure it out before posting here. Solved :)

* Karol Blazewicz [20.08.2011 13:26]:

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Uli Armbruster wrote:

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This was caused by vim-bufstat-git from the AUR. I actually don't need this, so I'll leave it off the system for now and file a bugreport.

It's not a bug: https://github.com/rson/vim-bufstat/blob/master/doc/bufstat.txt map <left> <plug>bufstat_scroll_left map <right> <plug>bufstat_scroll_left

it's a simple mapping, you can use a different one.

Oh crap, thanks Karol!