you just need to edit out those weird-looking lines in /etc/inputrc.
After editing, mine looks like
/home/zyu$ cat /etc/inputrc
set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
Jerry Yu
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Fulton Green wrote:
#Maybe this was asked before, but I couldn't find it immediately in the
#archives.
#
#I know how to set up bash to let me edit previous commands vi-style by typing
#        set -o vi
#or
#        export EDITOR=vi
#at the command line. My problem: under Red Hat 6.1, I can't seem to get
#either of these to have an effect when I put either of them in .bash_profile
#or .bashrc . In fact, doing the "set" command in .bashrc ensures that I won't
#even be able to *manually* set the mode from the command line.
#
#Is there a workaround for this? One other piece of info: the Linux box
#starts up with the GNOME display manager (gdm).
#
#TIA ...
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