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Theses questions are about GNU Readline's vi mode providing vi-like commands inside your terminal. Use this tag for questions about configuring or operating vi mode (e.g., Bash integration, setting keybindings).

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I just discovered vi mode in bash that I enable with set -o vi in my .bashrc. Now I was quite excited to remap the "normal mode" equivalents to some handy functionality. First and foremost I ...
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I am trying to have cursor color in zsh to indicate normal/insert mode, but once enter normal mode, the color of cursor don't reset to default color in insert mode. The source are: # color cursor zle-...
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I use VI mode when using bash and I sometimes find that some of the standard compspec definitions don't do what I want. For example, java doesn't appear to know that you have been able to do java ...
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I want to access the content of what I copied in the buffer with the vi-mode of the clipboard via the command ctrl + v or ctrl + shift + v in the terminal. I copied in my .zshrc the following: (from ...
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I recently moved from Zsh to Fish, and I'm having a problem with vi-mode in Fish. There doesn't seem to be a "repeat" keybinding, like in Zsh's vi-mode (bound to the "dot" .). I ...
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My default shell is tcsh. In my .cshrc file. I have bindkey -v, so that at the command line, the letters b and w jump backwards and forwards a word, respectively. I'd like to set up bash so that ...
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as described in the title, I am seeking user-friendly alternatives to KeyNav. I am a fan of CLI&TUI applications and stay on the terminal emulator most of the time, where I can use the keyboard to ...
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Using bash in the default (emacs) mode I get the following behavior when I hit Esc, .. $ echo hello hello $ hello # I hit `<ESC>.` to insert this Note there is no space before the word hello ...
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