Re: [Bug-readline] Readline starts vi editting mode in insert mode

[J Alan Brogan]

Chet,

Understand your reasoning perfectly.

Thanks for the extra starting point. If I get anything working I'll put 
in on GitHub.

--
Alan


On 13/10/14 14:14, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/10/14, 11:17 AM, J Alan Brogan wrote:
> > Whereas vi and vim both start in "Normal" mode.
> The most important thing is that readline exists so people can enter
> command lines.
>
> Users expect to be able to immediately enter a command at a shell prompt.
> I don't think that varying that much from user expectations is useful.
> If you want to start in command mode, you can always type ESC as the first
> thing.
>
> If you want to play around with it, you might start looking at
> rl_set_keymap_from_edit_mode() as well as the line in readline.c you
> identified, but this is not a candidate for inclusion in readline.
>
> Chet

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