On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:02, Matthew Miller 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. > > Compared to vim, you mean, yeah? It has been a long time, but I'm fairly sure that the last AT&T SysVr4 version of vi I used handled up/down arrows gracefully too. And I think it did it simply by mapping them to the codes to shift out of insert mode, move and shift back in - but I don't recall how it knew which mode to set after the motion. > Since bash is GNU, I think they're probably in the emacs camp and don't care > too much about the vi mode. I know - vi and man pages weren't invented there. > They probably accept patches, though. :) A key mapping should work without code changes if there is a way to restore the previous mode. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
