Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > does it work for anybody? > > > > > > Not here. > > > > SuSE does the right thing as-is; this is from /etc/inputrc : > > $if mode=vi > > set editing-mode vi > > set keymap vi > > $endif > > and the environment has INPUTRC set to "/etc/inputrc", > > but that can be overridden with ~/.inputrc (bash refman p.82) > > hi chuck, > > i'm not sure how that can possibly be; seems really impossible. just > to make absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, can you tell me > what you mean by "does the right thing"? > > there needs to be more than this, unless suse started hacking on > readline source code...
"Does the right thing": >From an ordinary bash prompt, with a typical U.S. installation of SuSE Linux 8.0, inside a standard xterm, logged in as an ordinary user, with no further customizations of the shell, press the up-arrow key. The shell displays the most recently typed command from the shell history, without moving the cursor to a different line, but positioning the cursor just beyond the last character of the command. At this point, pressing the Enter key causes that displayed command to execute. Additional up-arrow key presses will go further back in the shell history, while down-arrow replaces the displayed command with more recent commands. "set keymap vi" is part of the standard Gnu bash distribution, as documented in the Bash Reference Manual, 2.5a-th ed., 11/2001. Thusly speaketh the man page (excuse please the fleckths of thspittle on the thscreen, I blame the dentithst): keymap (emacs) Set the current readline keymap. The set of valid keymap names is emacs, emacs-standard, emacs-meta, emacs-ctlx, vi, vi-command, and vi-insert. vi is equivalent to vi-command; emacs is equivalent to emacs-standard. The default value is emacs; the value of editing-mode also affects the default keymap. That "(emacs)" in the first line gives the default value. Also, under man 3 readline, the section on default key bindings lists the complete "VI Mode bindings". Werner Fink is credited with the inputrc file, which also has these lines: $if term=xterm "\e[5;5~": history-search-backward "\e[6;5~": history-search-forward $endif "\e[C": forward-char "\e[D": backward-char "\e[A": previous-history "\e[B": next-history Maybe that's the magic you've been looking for? -- Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. The competent, of course, make it their *first* resort. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech