Mapping -Arrows to selecting characters/lines

Question

I started to use vim recently, but I miss the character/line selection methods from other text editors. By default vim maps ,

Answer 1

Vim doesn't bend to that easily in my opinion. The terminal one doesn't even recognize Shift-Up in my case! I thought the v (character-wise selection) or V (line-wise selection) was among the easier concepts to learn about vi/vim.

If this works (can't test right now), this is something you'll want:

" activate visual mode in normal mode
nmap  V
nmap  V
" these are mapped in visual mode
vmap  k
vmap  j
" 
" etc...
" similarly ,  for v