Re: [Fink-users] vim issues

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Here's a transcript from the Fink IRC channel concerning an issue with 
> vim
>
> 14:48 < mabs> I have a vim problem on my macbook. The problem is that 
> insert
>              mode is near useless because the pressing arrow-keys 
> inserts A,
>              B, C or D followed by newline. I'm running tiger and vim was
>              install via fink. Any ideas how to fix this?
> 14:50 < akh> mabs: I'm seeing the same thing--I was going to nag the 
> maintainer
>             and I forgot to do that.
> 14:51 < akh> The built-in vim (on Leopard anyway) doesn't seem to 
> suffer from
>             this.
> 14:51 < mabs> The problem exists for vim from macports as well, might 
> be a
>              settings problem
> 14:52 < akh> Same version?
> 14:59 < mabs> Not exactly i have from fink 7.1.123 and from ports 7.1.293
> 15:00 < akh> Oh.  I'm getting the same thing from 7.1.297 from Fink.
>
> In addition, deletion (either with backspace or delete) also doesn't 
> behave the same way as on the system's vim.  In particular, if I start 
> at the beginning of line 2, say, in insert mode, and hit backspace, 
> the system's vim will delete the newline and move me up to line 1, and 
> this doesn't happen with Fink's.
>
> My system is 10.5.2/PowerPC.
>
>
>
Following up, the maintainer pointed out 
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=550 on IRC.