[ale] question about vi and bash

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu May 5 13:55:18 EDT 2011


Ha! I read Chuck's post as "This is kewl but how do I use it?"



On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:49 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> How about `set -o quit_being_silly`? Seriously, if he wants to use
> that crazy input system then he should do that when he logs in. It
> shouldn't be set in the .bashrc when others have to use the same
> login.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys, I have a question. I co-worker of mine love to set bash up
> > so that commands are more live vi, in the profile he has the
> > following...
> >
> > set -o vi
> >
> > Well, I can't do a lot of my keys that I am use to
> >
> > ctrl-a = the begin of a line
> > crtl-e = the end of a line
> >
> > I have found that 0 will do teh same as ctrl-a, but $ does the same
> > ctrl-e, but how do I do that when I am on the command line.
> >
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