Using the Bash in VI mode

Dominik Schöler

November 24, 2015Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Activate VI mode by running

set -o vi

Illustration web development

Do you need DevOps-experts?

Your development team has a full backlog? No time for infrastructure architecture? Our DevOps team is ready to support you!

We build reliable cloud solutions with Infrastructure as code
We are experts in security, Linux and databases
We support your dev team to perform

Read more Show archive.org snapshot

Now use your Bash as if it were VI! Hit Esc to enter command mode, jump around with e, w, b, 0, $ etc. and edit just as you're used to.

Bash history is searched with /. See the linked cheat sheet for more hints.

License for source code

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2015-11-24 11:51)