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vi editor is not working

Asked by Niju on 2009-05-17

I installed ubuntu 7.10, after that i tried to work with vi editor, its going into the editor but if i press INSERT its not going to insert mode, if i use any arrow keys its showing some other characters., its not accepting g++ command, i tried to use $ sudo apt-get install vim, it showing vim package not found, how i solve this please help me.

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Last query:: 2009-05-17

Last reply:: 2009-05-17

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said on 2009-05-17:

Hi,

For your first problem: you are expecting vim commands to work with vi, which is usually not the case. As far as I remember, Ubuntu 7.10 provides the "real" vi, and not vim. In the original vi, the insert command is "i" (the letter), and "arrows" are j and k --not very convenient, admittedly. Later Ubuntu versions provide vim as a replacement for vi, which makes a lot of sense.

For your second question, if you had run "apt-cache search vim", you would have noticed that the package name for vim in old Ubuntu is vim-common.

Hope this helps!

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Sam_ (and-sam) said on 2009-05-17:

add:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009031200335OSCYDB
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/intro.html#FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/part1/index.html