[R] R (unix) command line editing for native speakers of vi

2004-11-19 Thread Steve Dutky
As an inveterate user of vi, I was pleased to stumble on how to use it for editing R commands. When an interactive R session is launched under unix, the command line editor most likely defaults to emacs. Typing esc,ctrl+j will switch this to vi editing mode (see below for possible

RE: [R] R (unix) command line editing for native speakers of vi

2004-11-19 Thread Liaw, Andy
If you have the following in your ~/.inputrc, you won't need to set it manually every time (at least according to the readline manual): set editing-mode vi HTH, Andy From: Steve Dutky As an inveterate user of vi, I was pleased to stumble on how to use it for editing R commands. When