Re: Having both Emacs and vi Keybindings.

[Chet Ramey]

> I've moved to bash after many years of tcsh.  It great having decent
> for-loops to hand.
> 
> One thing I miss is some Emacs keys still working after a `bindkey -v',
> i.e.  `set -o vi', e.g. ^P, ^N, ^A.  Is there an easy way to get the
> same effect, or should I just add those I'm missing into the vi keymap?
> 
> (Repeat command seems quickest as `^P Return' compared to `!! Return' or
> `ESC k Return').

You should be able to bind them in ~/.inputrc:

set keymap vi-insert
"\C-P":previous-history
"\C-N":next-history
"\C-A":beginning-of-line
        [...]

Chet

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