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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:26:50 +1000

Re: Bash and Vi Mode

Hi All,
    Why not just print out the man page? Now I wouldn't
print out any just man page, but I did print out the bash
man page and it was well worth it. if you have your printer
set up and working under linux, try:

    man -t [subject, eg. bash] | lpr

This command prints out a Postscript version of the man page
without the usual man formatting and looks quite good. The
bash man page is about 60-70 pages from memory, but it has
all kinds of useful things in it. I would recommend printing
it out. Hope this helps.
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
To: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>;
<linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Bash and Vi Mode


>
> Hmmmm...
>
> > RTFM bash(1) - its worth it, you'll understand how the
keymapping works
>
> I would read the bash man page except that:
>
> a) it's online
> b) it's fantastically long
> c) it's simpler to ask when something seems to malfunction
when it
> shouldn't
>
> This time I probably forgot that pure vi isn't as
"helpful" as vim and I
> didn't manage to convince myself that vi mode was working.
Funnily
> enough, I just discovered the "how to make readline behave
like vi"
> section of the info pages...
>
> DSL
>
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