Trey Hunner <trey@truthful.technology> added the comment:
Thank you Steve and Tadek for confirming that this is a readline feature and for pointing me to the readline manual. The note about an ~/.inputrc file lead me to discover (happily) that I could override this behavior by creating a ~/.inputrc file with the following line in it: "\e\C-M": abort Stop Esc Enter from entering vi mode in Python REPL I'm closing this as "not a bug". ---------- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43070> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com