On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 07:36, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> >
> > Hit control-R for an emacs-like incremental-search through history.
> > There's a way to switch to vi-style but when I tried it long ago
> > it lost the up/down arrow scroll through history. Does anyone
> > know if that is fixed now?
>
> It never was broken.
It is broken compared to current vi.
> When you set vi style options, you have to use
> vi commands to access the command history. The command line ends up
> being put in a modal state just like vi (edit vs. command). To switch
> to command mode, press ^V. To switch back into edit mode, use any vi
> edit command like 'i' for insert, for example. You move through the
> history, and the command like, using the normal vi movement keys of h,
> j, k, and l.
It has been about 15 years since you had to do that in vi itself.
The arrow keys now do line up/down without leaving insert mode (or
at least transparently switch between motion and insert). I'd
like bash to do the same to get the familiar /search-pattern/
without losing scroll up/down. It might be possible with
appropriate key mapping but I've never gotten it to work.
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Les Mikesell
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