Editing remote PHP project using Netbeans

Consider this scenario. You wrote some piece of code and placed it on remote server. Now you  need to edit the source file. How you will do it ?

VI editor : Arrow keys and Backspace keys are not working properly.

It has been found that on a new installation of Ubuntu [lets say 13.04] , when you try to write some code in VI editor, the arrow keys are not working as expected.
It becomes very frustrating when you wants to navigate in the code using arrow key and instead of cursor moving up and down you see characters like A , B , C or D in middle of text.