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bobsmith76
bobsmith76

Reputation: 284

how do you enable command line editing with vim keys using mac terminal?

I'm reading this book and I really do not understand what this author is talking about. It appears that you can program your mac to go forward one character by either hitting l or ^F. I do not understand the difference between emac key stroke and vim keystroke. He also says run this command and 'place it in your $HOME/.bash_profile but I cannot figure out how to place the command in the bas_profile. enter image description here

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2578

Answers (1)

Alfredo Ribeiro
Alfredo Ribeiro

Reputation: 68

The Author is talking about make you terminal console behaves like vi, this means typing set -o vi in your terminal, the console will work similar vi. So you will be able to navigate using the motion keys of vi, use INSERT mode, x to delete, etc.

You can set that permanently if you include this command in your ~/.bash_profile file.

If you are not sure what it does, I don't recommend so.

Upvotes: 5

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