I can't type words in vim

[petercao]

My keyboard contain 87 keys, and I just compared bothe ubuntu and manjaro,
I found out that, when I type words in vim under manjaro linux,
I can’t move the cursor using up/down/left/right arrow key,
and I found out that both my laptop embeddd keyboard or my 87 keys machine keyboard,
they just can’t focus the cursor, I think this is a bug,
and this last for a long time.
and I found out that ubuntu didn’t has this issue.
so puls help to solve this.
thx.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @petercao,

It might be that your locale isn’t right. Check the output of

locale

and

localectl

Make sure the settings are correct according to:

[root tip] [How To] Troubleshooting locale errors

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Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ The woes of dual-booting Manjaro/Windows Windows defaults to setting the (RTC) real-time-clock to local-time and Linux sets RTC in UTC (universal-time). This makes your time/timezone floating in space where it may be in doubt what time it actually is. Manjaro configuration The best approach to keep both working is to set your RTC (hardware clock) to UTC # timedatectl set-local-rtc 0 or use # hwclock --systohc --utc And enable a network-time-daemon on Linux. # systemct…

Locale

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale

[petercao]

I tried follow you direction, but it doesn’t work.

[linux-aarhus]

Please recheck your keyboard layout. 87-key layout is a common laptop layout.

There is nothing with Manjaro which works different in that regard.

Please post the output (in textual format using code fence) from

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

How to paste commandline output

~~~text
 $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf 
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "dk"
EndSection
~~~

[petercao]

Sorry for delay replay,
I will past my keyboard conf later;
and I found out that neovim don’t have this issue, left/right/up/down arrow can work well,
only in vim edit mode, this issue occured,
so I think maybe this is caused to the vim bugs?
sudo pacman -S vim ?
Is that right for install vim ?

[Aragorn]

@petercao

I can’t move the cursor using up/down/left/right arrow key,
and I found out that both my laptop embeddd keyboard or my 87 keys machine keyboard,
they just can’t focus the cursor, I think this is a bug,
and this last for a long time.

It’s not a bug. Due to your unusual keyboard, you’ve probably got vim set up to use the old keyboard navigation keys from the original vi editor…

• H = one character to the left
• J = down one line
• K = up one line
• L = one character to the right

VIM Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet

[petercao]

my conf print:

  cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf                                                 ✔ 
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "cn"
EndSection

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Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

[petercao]

I think you are right, so howt to change my keyboard layout to std left/up/right/down?

[Aragorn]

Considering that this is only an issue in vim — at least, that’s what I deducted from what you wrote — it is probably a setting in the vim configuration file. Check the dotfiles in your $HOME and/or the files under ~/.config and ~/.local/share.

[petercao]

I didn’t find any vim config files in your provide paths,
so what should I do to change my keyboard layout? to match l/r/up/down?

[Aragorn]

Maybe not what you want to hear, but you could use another editor. There are several vi-like editors, as well as completely different ones (such as emacs). Or you could use gvim, which is a GUI version of vim.