[vox-tech] readline questions (in bash)

[Adrian Kalaveshi]

Are you using RedHat 6.1?  I ran into this problem myself in RedHat 6.2.  =)

(from the Bash FAQ)

F6) Why can't I use vi-mode editing on Red Hat Linux 6.1?

The short answer is that Red Hat screwed up.

The long answer is that they shipped an /etc/inputrc that only works
for emacs mode editing, and then screwed all the vi users by setting
INPUTRC to /etc/inputrc in /etc/profile.

The short fix is to do one of the following: remove or rename
/etc/inputrc, set INPUTRC=~/.inputrc in ~/.bashrc (or .bash_profile,
but make sure you export it if you do), remove the assignment to
INPUTRC from /etc/profile, add

        set keymap emacs

to the beginning of /etc/inputrc, or bracket the key bindings in
/etc/inputrc with these lines

	$if mode=emacs
		[...]
	$endif

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Strauss [mailto:me@heyjay.com]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:18 PM
To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] readline questions (in bash)


Doesn't work for me :(

as soon as I sourced that .bash_bindings:
no arrow keys worked
home and end (still) don't work
<esc>k,j,l,x... don't work
vi search (/) doesn't work

tried: set -o vi after running your script.  didn't help

Jay
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