UPDATE: here's a URL that explains the problem, as well as multiple solutions:
http://faq.oreillynet.com/linux/FAQ_25_166.shtm
So those of you that responded with INPUTRC-related tactics were right on the
money. Thanks for the help, y'all!
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:09:22PM -0500 Fulton Green ">me@FultonGreen.com> wrote:
> I know how to set up bash to let me edit previous commands vi-style by typing
>         set -o vi
> or
> ... (I censored my own stupidity here) ...
>
> 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.
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