On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:24:25 PM UTC-4, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015, Paul wrote: >> I don't find that my vimrc settings take effect when using vi >> editing mode in readline. However, I can use the fc commad to >> switch into full fledged vim. Googling hasn't clarified whether it >> is built-in to bash or a separate command (there's info indicating >> both cases). In Cygwin, it seems to be a separate executable, so >> not part of bash. > > You can tell for sure what kind of command fc is with > > type fc > > in the shell. For me it outputs "fc is a shell builtin". There's a > shortcut, though: hitting Ctrl-X Ctrl-E on any line will bring up an > editor for that particular line, like fc does. I think it also uses > the same environment variables as fc does to determine which editor > to launch.
Actually, I'm blind. I did in fact use "type -a" and what came back was fc is a shell builtin fc is /c/Windows/system32/fc The Windows version does something completely unrelated. As for Ctrl-X Ctrl-E, it doesn't do anything in my setup. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
