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Mac OSX iTerm: Arrow Key Not Working in VI/VIM

If your arrow keys are not working with iTerm during using VI/VIM.
Try add this line into /etc/bashrc or .profile

TERM=linux

After that

source ~/.profile (if you edit in .profile)
source /etc/bashrc (if you edit in bashrc)

Arrow keys working in VI/VIM now? Good luck

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8 Responses to “Mac OSX iTerm: Arrow Key Not Working in VI/VIM”

  1. Ómar Kjartan Says:
    June 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    Thanks, this has been killing me. As a recent MacOSX convert not being able to use VIM was having a drastic effect on my behavior.

  2. joe Says:
    July 18th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    THAAAAAAAAAAANKS!

  3. Kaitlyn Says:
    July 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 am

    THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!

    I wanted to throw the computer out the window for a good five minutes, and now I’m very, very happy!

    Thank you soo much! :D

    *huggles*
    -Kat

  4. Mar Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 12:35 am

    There should be an option in the installer script to add this to your user init script.

  5. Rene Jochum Says:
    July 28th, 2007 at 1:52 am

    Thank You,
    You saved my VIM - iTerm live!

  6. eepohboy Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 11:02 am

    Heh… nice trick. Alternatively, you can learn how to use H,J,K,L to navigate in VI/M. Beats having to use those small arrow keys in the corner…

  7. Paul Ooi Says:
    September 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am

    I don’t really like HJKL :P because am a lazy fellow. :)

  8. Bushmaster Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    It is a nice trick however I cannot navigate through yast when am in iTerm.
    Anyone know how to go about it?

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