I was in Ubuntu and every time I was in insert mode and hit one of the arrow keys I’d get a crazy set of control characters. Very frustrating!!!. So looking around I found this trick. Edit your .vimrc file and add the following line:<\/p>\n
set nocompatible<\/p>\n
That should do it. Restart vi or vim and you’re off to the races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was in Ubuntu and every time I was in insert mode and hit one of the arrow keys I’d get a crazy set of control characters. Very frustrating!!!. So looking around I found this trick. Edit your .vimrc file and add the following line: set nocompatible That should do it. Restart vi or vim … Continue reading “Another VI Trick”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,25,52,55,56],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-arrow-keys","tag-control-characters","tag-trick","tag-vi","tag-vim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}