Cursor keys break on Mac OS X - Editors

Brian B-dawg wrote:

> The problem I have is this: When I swap out of VIM and back again,
> sometimes the cursor keys (up, down, left, right) stop working. Their
> alphabetical equivalents ( H, J, K, L ) continue to work. If I quit
> vim, and restart it, it starts working again.
>
> Interestingly, sometimes, when I hit one of the keys, it says "E388:
> Couldn't find definition".
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the problem/
> solution, here?

Hmm... have you tried

:nmap <Left>
:nmap <Up>
etc.

to see if your arrow keys are, for whatever reason, mapped to something?
That's the only thing I can think of offhand.

HTH,
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