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Winston Smith
Winston Smith

Reputation: 153

Cannot get "set show-mode-in-prompt on" on OSX

I'm using bash v4.4 with "set editing-mode vi". I cannot get the vi-mode to show in the prompt.

I added "set show-mode-in-prompt on" to my ~/.inputrc file, but for some reason it does not work.

My Readline version is 7.0.

When I type "man readline", I see there a line that reads:

"show-mode-in-prompt (Off)"

Which means it's probably off.

What am I doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 817

Answers (1)

jzwiep
jzwiep

Reputation: 66

I think the man readline output you're seeing is just explaining the default value for the setting, not necessarily telling you that you've still got it set to 'off'.

Maybe your default shell is still the old, system default one? Try checking with: echo $BASH_VERSION (It won't necessarily be the same as when running bash --version)

If it turns out it's the old version then updating your system's default shell to a newer version of bash might fix things!

Upvotes: 5

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