On Apr 30, 8:34pm, The Wolf wrote:
> basically I want bash to behave like ksh with vi as a line editor
> I am using following command:
> $ set -o vi
>
> to set the vi as an editor.
>
> I have tried to put this in the .bashrc file but I do not
> get the result as with the command executed from the prompt.
>
> Is there a way to automate the process of setting the
> command editing without me typing it every time I log in??
Put the following line in ~/.inputrc:
set editing-mode vi
If that doesn't work, it could be that you need to comment out
the following line in /etc/profile:
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
(I've found that I need to do this on my Red Hat systems.)
Kevin
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