Consider removing vim-tiny from Ubuntu in the future

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 17:15 +0300, Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:06 PM, howard chen<howachen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To be honest, if a broken version of vi has to been exist in Ubuntu, I
> > would rather perfer not to have vi pre-installed to please all the
> > vi-hater.
> 
> No such thing as 'broken' vi. Just the ones who don't know WHY once
> upon a time vi had nothing associated to arrow keys. 'Cause there were
> no arrow keys on those keyboards!

The original reason IIRC was vi was originally written for the ADM3a
character cell terminal.  The arrow keys were under hjkl on the
keyboard.  You sent the arrow codes by pressing CTRL-h, CTRL-j, etc. The
vi designer decided it was easier to avoid the CTRL press and just press
h,j,k, and l, since the editor had an input mode and a command mode.

Later the editor used the termcap and the terminfo system for mapping
keys to common controls on the very wide variety of character cell
terminals available at the time.
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