I prefer vi-style editing for my bash prompt - that is to say I press the escape key, and "b" two or three times and the cursor moves back 2 or 3 words. I can press "escape" followed by shift-I to take the cursor back to the very start of the line, and "v" allows me to edit the command line in vi itself.
I enable this in my .bashrc with "set -o vi". I find I can set it for all Readline-based programs by putting "set editing-mode vi" in ~/.inputrc. Is it possible to set this for all users, please, so that this edit mode is used for root? I find that my pager and editor are set in /etc/env.d/99pager and /etc/env.d/99editor respectively, but creating a /etc/env.d/99bashlineediting file containing "set -o vi" doesn't seem to work. Any thoughts, please? Stroller.
