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The command line navigation commands are just what any Emacs user would expect. vi users can set their $EDITOR to 'vi' to get those commands.

What do you mean you've never used Emacs? mumble whippersnappers mumble



Use `set -o vi` to get vi navigation commands on the command line.

EDIT: In bash, that is. It's `bindkey -v` in zsh.


Do it in .inputrc like this:

set editing-mode vi

Now any executable that uses readline will have vi editing commands on its command line. mysql, psql, etc.

Do as much of your command line editing configuration in .inputrc as possible, and you'll have it everywhere.

EDIT: man readline


set -o vi works in zsh as well.




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