Bug 296523 – xterm arrow keys in vim jump by word instead of by character

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description thorn 2009-12-11 13:43:06 UTC]

x11-terms/xterm-243, x11-terms/xterm-250:
in vim left and right arrows should jump by 1 character but they jump by 1 word.

This is an recurring bug. It is fixed in xterm-242 but it's here again in xterm-243 and xterm-250.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-12-11 14:51:35 UTC]

Try -253.

[Comment 2 Jiri Pittner 2009-12-17 10:52:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> x11-terms/xterm-243, x11-terms/xterm-250:
> in vim left and right arrows should jump by 1 character but they jump by 1
> word.
> 
> This is an recurring bug. It is fixed in xterm-242 but it's here again in
> xterm-243 and xterm-250.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
I have -253, bug is still there.

[Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2009-12-22 10:03:23 UTC]

It's not that the bug is "still there", but that the default
for the allowTcapOps resource changed (per Bram's request).
If you have a reproducible case where this is a problem,
you should assign it to vim.

[Comment 4 Patrick Lauer 2009-12-30 12:34:04 UTC]

So what do we do with this? Is it a bug?

[Comment 5 Thomas Dickey 2009-12-30 13:31:36 UTC]

It sounds like a bug.  But it's less likely that xterm is sending
the information than that the user's configuration for vim is
causing vim to get confused.  I've seen this bug in more than
one case, without getting much useful information other than
that it was fixed by the user changing something in their .vimrc

[Comment 6 Thomas Dickey 2009-12-30 15:46:35 UTC]

(minor correction: it's less likely that xterm is sending
*incorrect* information than the alternatives)

[Comment 7 William Waisse 2010-08-05 07:03:43 UTC]

same problem here after upgrading my gentoo servers

adding :
set term=builtin_ansi

in 
/etc/vim/vimrc

fixed the arrow keys
( tips found on http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Fix_broken_arrow_key_navigation_in_insert_mode)