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When I hit an arrow key in insert mode with the system installed vim
6.2, it works correctly. When I do the same with the fink-installed vim
6.3, it seems to be typing some elaborate sequence (that doesn't work).
Any ideas what I'm missing to make fink's vim behave?

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<1145306534.465082.318700@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"Steven Fisher" <sdfisher@spamcop.net> wrote:

When I hit an arrow key in insert mode with the system installed vim
6.2, it works correctly. When I do the same with the fink-installed vim
6.3, it seems to be typing some elaborate sequence (that doesn't work).
Any ideas what I'm missing to make fink's vim behave?

Check the terminal that Vim thinks it has

:set term?

The Apple provided Vim may have a built-in default terminal
definition that the fink version is missing.

or the term is one in the terminfo database that does not have
correct definitions for the arrow key escape sequences send by the
terminal.

My TERM environment variable is set to xterm-16color which seems
to work nicely for me.

And I use iTerm 0.80 <http://iterm.sf.net> mostly because it has
tabbed windows, but I also think it does a few things better than Terminal.app.

Also when I was using Terminal.app, I modified my arrow key
definitions in
Terminal -> Window Settings... menu -> Keyboard
setting:

cursor down \033OB
cursor left \033OD
cursor right \033OC
cursor up \033OA

Then again, I did this originally back on Panther. I don't know
if Tiger changed them or if these are my original changes, but my
arrow keys still work, plus I had switched over to iTerm before
upgrading to Tiger, so my mileage in Terminal under Tiger has been
minimual.

NOTE: I live and breath with Vim and iTerm on my Mac at work.
I'm a UNIX software developer, and a PowerMac is my workstation.

Bob Harris
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Bob Harris wrote:

Check the terminal that Vim thinks it has

:set term?

The Apple provided Vim may have a built-in default terminal
definition that the fink version is missing.

Good thought, but both seem to be defined as term=xterm-color.

My TERM environment variable is set to xterm-16color which seems
to work nicely for me.

I tried this as well, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

And I use iTerm 0.80 <http://iterm.sf.net> mostly because it has
tabbed windows, but I also think it does a few things better than Terminal.app.

I'm not very happy with Terminal. I tried your other suggestions, but
they didn't help. I think I'll try out iTerm and see if it is better
suited to my needs. Thanks!

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On 2006-04-17, Steven Fisher <sdfisher@spamcop.net> wrote:

When I hit an arrow key in insert mode with the system installed vim
6.2, it works correctly. When I do the same with the fink-installed vim
6.3, it seems to be typing some elaborate sequence (that doesn't work).

Bulld vim yourself, without fink. 6.4 builds out of the box and does
not have the problem you describe (I'm using it to type in this
article). You also get Aqua gvim for free. Check out the source tree
from :pserver:anonymous@cvs-pserver.sf.net:80/cvsroot/vim. I use it
every day for all my email and usenet composition (mutt and slrn, which
you should also build yourself). Imo you really should avoid fink and darwinports if at all possible, except to use their patches when
necessary.
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