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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:43:16 +0930

Re: Bash and Vi Mode

Ahh Im told that it should actually be in .inputrc and that some distros
set it to emacs in .inputrc so that if you put it in .bashrc it may not
work as it gets set back from .inputrc.

Ant

David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Under the default shell that one gets (as a user) in FreeBSD 4.2 one can
> do:
> 
> % set -o vi
> 
> And you get a vi emulation mode (where $ takes you to the end of the
> line, you have command modes and such). Is there any way to convince the
> default shell (bash) in Linux (specifically RH 7.1) to do the same
> thing?
> 
> DSL
> 
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