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		yaychris on Oct 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Level Up Your Shell Game Use `set -o vi` to get vi navigation commands on the command line. EDIT: In bash, that is. It's `bindkey -v` in zsh.

a3n on Oct 25, 2013 | [–]

Do it in .inputrc like this:

set editing-mode vi

Now any executable that uses readline will have vi editing commands on its command line. mysql, psql, etc.

Do as much of your command line editing configuration in .inputrc as possible, and you'll have it everywhere.

EDIT: man readline

Apes on Oct 24, 2013 | [–]

set -o vi works in zsh as well.

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