Re: [gentoo-user] Change Readline mode for all users?

[Simon Thelen]

On 17-09-19 at 14:48, Stroller wrote:
> > On 19 Sep 2017, at 01:30, Simon Thelen <gentoo-user@××××.de> wrote:
> >> Is it possible to set this for all users, please, so that this edit
> >> mode is used for root?
> > Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file
> > (the inputrc file). The name of this file is taken from the value of the
> > INPUTRC environment variable.  If that variable is unset, the default is
> > ~/.inputrc. If that file  does not exist or cannot be read, the ultimate
> > default is /etc/inputrc.
> >
> >> I find that my pager and editor are set in /etc/env.d/99pager and
> >> /etc/env.d/99editor respectively, but creating a
> >> /etc/env.d/99bashlineediting file containing "set -o vi" doesn't seem
> >> to work.
> > Either "set-editing-mode vi" in /etc/inputrc for all readline programs
> > or in /etc/bash/bashrc (for bash-only)
> I looked at /etc/inputrc, and its existing contents are of a different format.
>
> Where all the other lines are of the form:
>   "\eOH": beginning-of-line
>   "\eOF": end-of-line
> it felt a bit wrong to be adding "set-editing-mode vi". Hence me asking here. Is it foolish of me to think this?
That's just part of the inputrc, mine at least also has several settings
set at the top of the file. According to readline(3) the inputrc can
contain both key bindings and variable settings, the lines you pointed
out are the keybindings and what you wanted to add is a variable setting
(set editing-mode vi).

-- 
Simon Thelen