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Vim <strong>101</strong> Hacks<br />
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Hack 81. Make Bash Shell work like Vim Editor<br />
Once you’ve become familiar with Vim shortcuts, you may want to use the<br />
same from your Unix command prompt.<br />
By default the bash command line editing is done with emacs keystrokes.<br />
To use Vim keystrokes for command line editing, set the following.<br />
$ set -o vi<br />
After you perform set -o vi , bash will act virtually like it is in insert mode.<br />
Press ESC to go to command mode. From here you can execute most Vi<br />
commands to perform command line editing.<br />
Make this change permanent by setting this option in your .bashrc.<br />
$ cat ~/.bashrc<br />
set -o vi<br />
Execute the following to disable Vim mode and go back to emacs mode.<br />
$ set -o emacs<br />
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