New ubuntu12.04, I am absolutely novice, when using the VI Editor to edit the text is really difficult to use, so found a few solutions are as follows: 1. Install vim full version
Since Ubuntu is pre-installed with the tiny version, it can cause inconvenience to our use. So we're going to install the full version of Vim.
First, remove the previous version of VI and enter the following command: sudo apt-get remove Vim-common
Then install the full version of VIM, enter the command: sudo apt-get install vim
After the installation of the VI is not so difficult to use.
This method is my own use, very effective, but is the Internet.
2. Edit/etc/vim/vimrc.tiny
Since the owner of the/etc/vim/vimrc.tiny is the root user, the file must be modified under root privileges. Very simple, this file inside the penultimate sentence is "set compatible", the "compatible" to "nocompatible" non-compatible mode can solve the problem of the direction of the ABCD.
The next problem to solve the backspace key is also very simple, after that sentence added a sentence: set backspace=2
This method has not been tried, from the network.
Resources:
http://blog.csdn.net/sidely/article/details/40339543
"Linux" Ubuntu vi up and down change ABCD and apt-get Install error problem solving method