vi inserts odd characters when using cursor keys in insert mode

[Karsten Hopp]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:15:41PM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
> "Thom Nuzum" <linux at tendata.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm having this problem: the right arrow insets "d" etc. I screwed up my
> > fstab file as a result.
> > 
> 
> Does setting the TERM variable fix the problem for you too?
> 
> export TERM=xterm ; vi
> 
> If so you'll be the third person to report that their TERM variable
> is set incorrectly.   We'll have to figure out why.
> 

Do you have vim-common installed ? This sounds vaguely like bugzilla #123205

   Karsten

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