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
