echo 'set editing-mode vi' >>~/.inputrcThis will enable vi-editing mode for all commands that use the GNU readline library (e.g. bash, python, bc, etc.), not only the shell. For the shell only (including non-bash shells), add 'set -o vi' to your shrc file.
I don't know why I didn't do this before given that I'm a pretty hard vi user. Still, for some reason, I kept using emacs-like key bindings for command-line editing. Not any more! However, be careful: if you are used to vim's visual editing mode, you'll keep hitting 'v' in the command line and getting super annoyed.
Enjoy!
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Thank you, Julio. I'm going to use this profusely :-)
Hi! I need a maintainer for mksh’s – http://mirbsd.de/mksh – Vi command line editing mode, because I don’t use it. You might want to look out for bugs, I’ve fixed several dozen of them (e.g. horizontal scrolling bugs) in the Emacs command line editing mode. UTF-8 support (press € and hit backspace only once instead of three times, and the cursor position is intact too) is also missing from the Vi mode code.
It’s of course in pkgsrc®…
[(control g)]
Being a NetBSD user, you ought not forget to set up your .editrc for the editline library, too. (Or does editline read .inputrc these days?)
My .editrc:
bind -v
psql:bind \\t rl_complete
ftp:bind \\t ftp-complete
bind \\t rl_complete
My .inputrc
set editing-mode vi
set match-hidden-files off
set completion-ignore-case on
Tab: complete
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