Re: Bash's vi command line editing mode

Well...duh..there's an easy fix for this. Just prefix the command with '#'
Then hit :wq to save it and "run" it. Still...why does it behave this way?

Shouldn't I be able to choose not to run the command when I exit

from Bash's vi editing mode?

   This is on a Centos 5 machine, and the terminal is a Gnome terminal.

Thanks,

Ven

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ven Tadipatri <vtadipatri@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

   This may sound like a real newbie question, but when I do the "set -o vi" 

in the bash command line shell, if I hit <Esc> and v on the command line,

it goes into vi editing mode. This is kind of cool, as I can exercise

the full editing power of vi, and when I exit the editor it runs the command.

  Unfortunately, sometimes I may have a really powerful/dangerous/unnecessary

command that I've typed, and all I want to do is just cancel, not execute the

command. How do I do this?

  :q! doesn't seem to work, as the command still runs. :wq , well, I don't want

to save anything, I just want to get out of the editor and return to the plain

old bash prompt.

   Is this possible? Of course I can always kill the terminal that I'm running

in to avoid running the command as soon as vi exits. Or I can try to press

ctrl+C as fast as possible.

   I was hoping for a better alternative.

Please help.

Thanks,

Ven

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