Both are great arguments. Let me try to find a commmon ground here: How about keeping vi, but in the same way as the server, where the arrow keys work as should in insert mode? I think if we do that, we won't lose the vi command, but the "feeling", a.k.a. the arrow keys, and the features will be consistent across desktop and server.
What do you think? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to vim in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2107647 Title: Drop compatible mode for vim-tiny Status in vim package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I know I'm opening a can of worms here, but maybe we could drop `set compatible` from /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny. I think who needs the compatible mode these days knows where it can find it and how to enable it, and it's really annoying in a fresh installation to get the strange characters when using the arrow keys. Possibly 10–15 years ago, it would make sense to have vim-tiny using compatible mode, but today we could, and even should, rethink about it. I know `nano` is the default text editor, but we discuss `vi` a lot in technical documentations, so my opinion is we should provide a nice experience for the user. I understand `vi` in general isn't a nice experience for a beginner user, though, but not using compatible mode would be s little less daunting. But I'm thinking if there is any tool that would need to invoke `vi` in compatible mode, that could cause a problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/2107647/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
