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Doesn't support arrow keys (by default)

Often the command ':set nocompatible' is required inside '~/.vimrc' to make the arrow keys work, especially if using SSH-connections (and for example Putty).


'vi' is an editor that is available on (almost) any and all Linux distribution, as opposed to 'pico' or 'nano'. It is hard to use as it is already although that's possible to learn, but it gets almost impossible to learn if even the keyboard input and shell output start acting different from the documented ways.