no vi editing mode

no vi editing mode

[R Joseph Wright]

When I use zsh under X, I can hit ESC and get into vi editing mode.  When I
do this from the console, it does not work.  Is there a variable that needs
to be explicitly set somewhere to make this work?

Re: no vi editing mode

[Thomas Köhler]

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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:04:10PM +0200,
R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> wrote:
> 
> When I use zsh under X, I can hit ESC and get into vi editing mode.  When I
> do this from the console, it does not work.  Is there a variable that needs
> to be explicitly set somewhere to make this work?

Can't reproduce such behaviour. vi editing mode works from the console
as well as from X. Do you set some options under X that you don't set in
console? Such as setting EDITOR to "vi" in your .xsession or something
similar?
Then again: What's your operating system? Linux? Some BSD variant? And
what version of zsh do you use?

CU,
Thomas, running zsh-3.1.9-dev-3 under Linux

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Re: no vi editing mode

[Geoff Wing]

R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> typed:
:When I use zsh under X, I can hit ESC and get into vi editing mode.  When I
:do this from the console, it does not work.  Is there a variable that needs
:to be explicitly set somewhere to make this work?

Are you in ``emacs'' keybindings?  If you always want ``vi'' keybindings,
do you have ``bindkey -v'' in your ~/.zshrc file?  
At invocation, zsh examines your VISUAL and EDITOR env. vars. to
modifier default keybindings.  See zshzle(1).

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