Bug 2921 – "set -o vi" in .bashrc disables history walking

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Bug 2921 - "set -o vi" in .bashrc disables history walking

Summary:	"set -o vi" in .bashrc disables history walking

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2738

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	bash (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-05-19 01:16 EDT by bugzilla
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-05-28 16:26:03 EDT
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Description bugzilla 1999-05-19 01:16:24 EDT

when I put "set -o vi" into .bashrc, ESC-k and ARROW-UP
stops working in the shell.
when I type it in manually instead, things work fine.
Could it have something to do with readline initialization ?
(I have no idea).

    Thanx,

          John

Comment 1 Dale Lovelace 1999-05-28 16:26:59 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2738 ***

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