This is a really annoying bug... I recently did a fresh install of Jaunty and I 
thought vi was broken since arrow keys were inserting characters, a behaviour I 
hadn't seen vi do before. AFIAK, most other *nix's use the noncompatible setup. 
Not sure what could be done to make life easier for the user though. tgpae's 
suggestion although good, wouldn't help people like me who wouldn't have a clue 
what to edit to get the desired behaviour. To get around it, I installed vim 
(from suggestion here: 
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+question/24182). 
Doing it that way still feels like a hack though, but I'm glad it fixed the 
problem.

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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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