Here are two ways I know of: 1) echo "set editing-mode vi" >> ~root/.inputrc
2) exec bash -o vi --Bob James W. Lynch wrote: > > --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > This subject brings up a question I've had for a long time. Bash appears > to be the shell that I get when I log in as root or do an su command. > I'm from the old school and perfer vi editing of commands, but I have > yet to be able to make bash use vi as root. I've set EDITOR and FCEDIT. > I've set editing-mode vi. I can't seem to get root to use anything > but emacs editing mode. Is this a diabolical plot by the Linux developers > to force emacs on the world? 8^) > > Bash works as expected, described and designed when I'm a normal > user. > > Can I do it? How? > > Thanks, > Jim. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO > Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
