Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 37471
set -o vi doesnt work
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:49 EDT
If I include "set -o vi" into any start script such as /home/myaccount/.profile /home/myaccount/.bashrc /etc/bashrc /etc/profile vi is set and emacs is unset according to set -o but the shell doesnt behave vi After that I never get my vi-mode Omitting set -o vi in any script I can get vi-mode by typing it into my interactive shell. What can I do to get my vi-mode-shell automatically? thx martin ps maybe not a bug but other systems I often handle behave as I assumed (set -o vi in /home/myaccount/.bashrc ... vi-mode in bash 1.14.7(1) on rh62 and bash 2.04.0(1) on a tru64-unix.
This is fixed in 2.05-1.
I found a workaround that works beautifully for me in the gnu.bash.bug newsgroup: >From: stoll@deakin.edu.au (stoll@deakin.edu.au) >Subject: RE: Can't pre-set "set -o vi" >Date: 1999/11/24 ... >The solution is amazingly simple. Just add these lines to your >/etc/inputrc: > set editing-mode vi > set keymap vi >The distributed /etc/inputrc is configured exclusively for emacs mode, >and to that end they've made it impossible to set it to vi mode. With >these added lines, you can toggle between the two, and your default is >vi mode. What could be better! ... >Angelika Stoll