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[Marcos Alano <2107647@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Both are great arguments.

Let me try to find a commmon ground here: How about keeping vi, but in the same way as the server, where the arrow keys work as should in insert mode?
I think if we do that, we won't lose the vi command, but the "feeling", a.k.a. the arrow keys, and the features will be consistent across desktop and server.

What do you think?

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Title:
  Drop compatible mode for vim-tiny

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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