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

[Simon Thelen]

On 17-09-19 at 01:11, Stroller wrote:
> I prefer vi-style editing for my bash prompt - that is to say I press
> the escape key, and "b" two or three times and the cursor moves back 2
> or 3 words. I can press "escape" followed by shift-I to take the
> cursor back to the very start of the line, and "v" allows me to edit
> the command line in vi itself.
>
> I enable this in my .bashrc with "set -o vi".
>
> I find I can set it for all Readline-based programs by putting "set
> editing-mode vi" in ~/.inputrc.
>
> 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)

-- 
Simon Thelen