[oclug] terminal weirdness

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jon Earle wrote:

> The weird thing is the history behaviour... it's almost acting like it's
> been ross-bred with vi or something.  If I want the history, I have to hit

Gnu Readline, the library used to provide the cool command history feature 
in bash has 2 modes: emacs and vi.  The default is emacs so it is 
surprising you are seeing this problem (which is indicative of being in vi 
mode).

At your shell prompt type this to move back to emacs mode:

set -o emacs

You may want to put this in ~/.bashrc.  It is also worth trying to track 
down why the shell is coming up in a non standard mode.  It may be 
something in /etc/profile or your existing rc files.

Rob

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