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Subject: Re: VI and terminals
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At 08:40 PM 8/29/2003, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have trouble using vi and vim under freebsd, under linux red hat it was 
>working perfect. The trouble is that the arrow-keys doesn't work when I'm 
>in insert mode. I have heard that it's important to use the right 
>terminalprogram. In vim it's ok with the fancy swedish letters with dots 
>over, but the arrow-keys doesn't work.
>
>/Mats
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Mats,

add this line to your .vimrc file:

:set nocp

Solved the same problem for me...


Janos Dohanics
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