On Jan 07 14:36:53, s...@spacehopper.org wrote: > On 2013-01-07, Sébastien Marie <semarie-open...@latrappe.fr> wrote: > >> What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this? > > > > You need to set your command-line editing mode to "emacs". > > > > In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to "emacs" in your > > .profile: > > > > VISUAL=emacs > > EDITOR=vi > > export VISUAL EDITOR > > Many programs prefer VISUAL over EDITOR, so this is only of limited help.
e.g. mutt: EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.
