Linux vi arrow keys broken in insert mode

Question

My arrow keys don\'t work in vi in insert mode at home, they just each insert a newline and a capital letter, like \'A\'. Is there a way to fix that?

Answer 1

I just had an issue with arrow keys after switching over to use git in .vim.

I have installed this repo - https://github.com/sunaku/.vim

and after digging around for an hour, I found that AutoClose plugin (which didn't like anyway) broke the arrow keys.

The plugin docs suggest that one should set set ttimeoutlen=100, but that didn't work for me! (using urxvt+screen or urxvt, and even xterm)

So I removed the plugin at the end.