Never saw this come through so reposting it...
I wrote:
>
> I like to use the vi set of editing commands in my shell.
>
> I would put the 'set -o vi' in my .profile.
>
> Ok fine. In the days of RH5.x this worked. Then RH 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1
> came out and it broke. It's still broken in RH 6.1 and MDK 7.0 but it
> isn't broken in SuSE 6.3. Have done identical kernels between the distro's
> and it's still only broken on MDK(&RH), so it's not there. The bash version
> *looks* the same.
>
> The break is such:
>
> If you put the line in above to be automatically executed upon login,
> you *won't* be able to use line editing, it will just beep at you when you
> press ESC. Subsequent attempts to
> 'set -o vi' have no effect**. If I *don't* put the line in .profile
> (or .bashrc), then I can manually type it in each time I spawn a window
> or remote login and that works.
>
> ** - Ahh...this is interesting. On a virtual tty console (ex. CTL-ALT-F2),
> it ignores the "set -o vi" in the .profile, BUT I can type it in
> interactively and have it work. But it doesn't work in X or with remote
> login. Partly to do with pty's?
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Should I file a bug?
>
> --- also unrelated bit of weirdness -- when I post an email with a new
> subject, it seems to get delayed by a day before coming back to me -- but
> responses to other posts show up in under an hour. Coincidence?
> Hallucination?
>
> thanks,
> -linda
