I found this behaviour extremely annoying, but I cannot ever remember
this bug on 80/90's HP, or Sun workstations.
Maybe that's because those companies, or the sysadmins mapped the arrow
keys to something else.
If vim_tiny has to be kept, can I suggest doing 2 things....
1. Mapping arrow keys to something less annoying.
2. Including full full vi help in the ":help" command.
my immediate response was to look up help.
the help I found there was confusing.
An example of mapping arrow keys is here:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/vi.html
Another option would be to map arrow keys to nothing at all!
Another hint that this is a bug people have resolved is here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sgi/faq/apps/section-24.html
This suggests that at least for original vi, arrow mappings were available, but
on slow terminals exhimited same behaviour as Ubuntu.
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Vim variants other than vim-tiny source /etc/vim/vimrc instead of
/etc/vim/vimrc.tiny when invoked as vi (ie, Arrow keys not broken when running
vi)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70569
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