On 2017-08-28, mar...@martinbrandenburg.com <mar...@martinbrandenburg.com> wrote: > What works is to set EDITOR in your profile, then set -o emacs. The other > order will result in the shell changing to vi mode.
That's fine until you su :) > Or we could all set EDITOR to ed, the STANDARD text editor. An alternative hack is "ln -s vi emacs-not-really" and use EDITOR="emacs-not-really" ...