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[Marcos Alano <2107647@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have this happening in a fresh system. I think it can be frustrating for a non-so-experienced user, considering they are using vi instead of nano, that could be A problem when editing a config system or so.
I ran a fresh container with multipass and the problem didn't happen because it uses vim.basic instead.
Maybe do the desktop image using vim.basic too?
The idea is to avoid having the user have such problems.
Maybe there is another way, but the idea is make work out of the box.

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Title:
  Drop compatible mode for vim-tiny

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I know I'm opening a can of worms here, but maybe we could drop `set
  compatible` from /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny.

  I think who needs the compatible mode these days knows where it can
  find it and how to enable it, and it's really annoying in a fresh
  installation to get the strange characters when using the arrow keys.

  Possibly 10–15 years ago, it would make sense to have vim-tiny using
  compatible mode, but today we could, and even should, rethink about
  it.

  I know `nano` is the default text editor, but we discuss `vi` a lot in
  technical documentations, so my opinion is we should provide a nice
  experience for the user. I understand `vi` in general isn't a nice
  experience for a beginner user, though, but not using compatible mode
  would be s little less daunting.

  But I'm thinking if there is any tool that would need to invoke `vi`
  in compatible mode, that could cause a problem.

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