this worked just peachy.
Thanks a lot.
I have to make a note of this.
The Wolf
Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 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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