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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:13:19 +0930

Re: Bash and Vi Mode

Anthony and Tony!

> 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.

Hmmm....

[root]# set -o vi

Did work. I couldn't have been pressing enough [esc] so I could test
command mode out. However, I have found:

[root]# cat /etc/inputrc | grep emacs
$if mode=emacs

Which I suspect is putting me into emacs mode (1).

DSL

(1)
uuugh

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