Solution for arrow keys inserting B A and other in vi and vim

vi_arrow_keys_fix.txt

I use vi/vim all the time to edit files on Linux.  I occassionally I will install a Linux distro and find out that when I use vi or vim, the cursor keys do not work as expected.

I finaly got tired of having to use the nano editor (it's a good alternative) so I did some checking.  The following web site had three solutions:

Ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/353911/hitting-arrow-keys-adds-characters-in-vi-editor

The one that worked was:

export TERM=xterm

Adding the line:

  set nocompatible    
  
to either of these three files, did not work for an Ubuntu 16.04.1 on ppc64le:

~/.exrc
~/.vimrc
/etc/vim/vimrc.tiny