[arch-general] problems with vim

[Thaddeus Nielsen]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:38:12PM +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Uli Armbruster
> <uli.armbruster at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> > I wanted to ask here first, because it might be a configuration problem on my side, which I tried to, but couldn't figure out.
> >
> > My problem is, in vim the right and left arrow keys don't do anything in command mode (in insert mode everything's normal). The up and down arrow keys work as expected. I know in vim it makes more sense to use hjkl to navigate, which I prefer most of the time, but sometimes - I don't really know why - I use the arrow keys.
> > To investigate further I moved ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc, still the same. I tried it with a new user, still the same.
> >
> > Is this a bug? Can somebody confirm this behavior?
> >
> > Best
> > Army
> >
> 
> I don't use any config for my vim and arrow keys work fine.

Vim 7.3.266 here, with .vimrc and .viminfo: right and left arrow keys
work fine in command mode.

	T.