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• Mandy // Jul 15, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  Thnks that solved my problem.

• Fixing vim/vi arrow keys behavior | HB blog // Dec 12, 2008 at 10:58 am

  [...] Found here. [...]

• shikhanshu // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  solved my problem too… perfect post, you know

• prinzdezibel // Apr 17, 2009 at 11:14 am

  Thank you. You saved my day!

• Olivier S. Masse // Jun 30, 2009 at 8:23 am

  Thanks!

• threeRd // Aug 8, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  That was driving me CRAZY! Much obliged

• Jeroen // Aug 11, 2009 at 1:40 am

  Thank you! This was really annoying me and it appears to be fixed now!

• David // Aug 18, 2009 at 9:57 am

  In my Ubuntu the setting in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny had a “set compatible” line. I commented it out and everything is OK for all users…

• 80's Interactive // Sep 13, 2009 at 12:26 pm

  thnz, made my day..

• Shahram // Nov 2, 2009 at 1:56 am

  Thx, great.

• Trent // Dec 21, 2009 at 1:05 am

  The default vim installed with Ubuntu is pretty weak. Fix all arrow movement, backspacing, etc problems with:

  sudo apt-get install vim

• ngan // Dec 30, 2009 at 12:22 pm

  Thank you so much !!

• Brian // Jun 14, 2010 at 5:33 am

  For vi, you need to add the “set nocompatible” line to ~/.exrc

• Sam // Aug 4, 2010 at 4:39 am

  Now I got a decent VIM.
  You’re the man !!

• Toby // Aug 6, 2010 at 6:10 am

  Thanks, I knew it was an easy fix but I couldn’t for the life of me remember the command!

• Jesse // Apr 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

  Thank you blog author and also thank you Trent; it seems ubuntu and debian share this odd quirk of bundled vim sucking compared to the version available in repo. I just “aptitude install vim” and it installs — even though it was already there — then suddenly this and many other problems vanish into a puff of logic.

• javed alam // Jul 11, 2011 at 8:55 am

  wow it given me the new breaths.

• Rodrigue // Jul 25, 2011 at 1:25 am

  Thanks. That save my working day

• Zanval // Nov 19, 2011 at 5:57 pm

  Thanks a lot. Saved my life…

  especially when on a remote machine via ssh…

• SOmeoneu // Nov 28, 2011 at 10:51 am

  Thanks you

• Brad // Jan 7, 2012 at 10:38 am

  Thanks for this!!! It was driving me crazy to not be able to use vi for small edits!