From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gilmartin Subject: set -o vi Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:01:24 -0600 Message-ID: <9AD96B5F-3C88-4E01-9582-B75184164026@aim.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58758 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753647Ab1HUQBi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:01:38 -0400 Received: from imr-da03.mx.aol.com (imr-da03.mx.aol.com [205.188.105.145]) by hera.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7LG1a1I026880 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:01:37 GMT Received: from mtaout-ma01.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtaout-ma01.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.41.1]) by imr-da03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p7LG1XtL011748 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:01:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (75-166-241-37.hlrn.qwest.net [75.166.241.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-ma01.r1000.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id D5A97E0001A0 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:01:30 -0400 (EDT) Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: dash@vger.kernel.org (Damn! I clicked the wrong link in the confirmation notice. Apologies.) For some time now, on both Ubuntu and Cygwin, "set -o vi" is ineffective. The command is accepted and a query indicates it's in effect: \! $ uname -a Linux Linux-Mac 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux \! $ set -o vi \! $ set -o Current option settings ... vi on emacs off ... But when I press ESC to enter command history, it simply echoes the ESC as "^[" and calls the next command illegal: \! $ ^[ dash: not found Thanks, gil