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arrow key dysfunction in vi-editor

Asked by pratik

when i use vi editor in my ubuntu 10.01 the arrow keys do not work fine.inspite of moving up and down they start printing capital A B C D.I searched on the net and got that I should edit some files in the etc/vim folder ,but the access is not granted not I am able to change the access mode by chmad command .plz help.

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Maxim Petrov (maximpetrov) said : 		#1

Use

sudo gedit FILENAME

to open that file with root permissions

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please install

vim-full

or for other with the same issue in Ubuntu 11.04

vim

package

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pratik (bhawana-pratik) said : 		#3

I am not able to use vi editor(with arrow keys functioning properly) in 11.04 also.
doing
sudo apt-get install
is not helping .it says
vim package not available
how to download related package

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install vim

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