Comment 5 for bug 70569

This is a really annoying bug... I recently did a fresh install of Jaunty and I thought vi was broken since arrow keys were inserting characters, a behaviour I hadn't seen vi do before. AFIAK, most other *nix's use the noncompatible setup.
Not sure what could be done to make life easier for the user though. tgpae's suggestion although good, wouldn't help people like me who wouldn't have a clue what to edit to get the desired behaviour. To get around it, I installed vim (from suggestion here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+question/24182).
Doing it that way still feels like a hack though, but I'm glad it fixed the problem.