Re: Sourcing .vimrc for use in bash shell?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015, Paul wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:24:25 PM UTC-4, Eric Christopherson
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015, Paul wrote:
>> >> I don't find that my vimrc settings take effect when using vi
>> >> editing mode in readline. However, I can use the fc commad to
>> >> switch into full fledged vim. Googling hasn't clarified whether
>> >> it is built-in to bash or a separate command (there's info
>> >> indicating both cases). In Cygwin, it seems to be a separate
>> >> executable, so not part of bash.
>> >
>> > You can tell for sure what kind of command fc is with
>> >
>> > type fc
>> >
>> > in the shell. For me it outputs "fc is a shell builtin". There's
>> > a shortcut, though: hitting Ctrl-X Ctrl-E on any line will bring
>> > up an editor for that particular line, like fc does. I think it
>> > also uses the same environment variables as fc does to determine
>> > which editor to launch.
>>
>> Actually, I'm blind. I did in fact use "type -a" and what came
>> back was
>>
>> fc is a shell builtin fc is /c/Windows/system32/fc
>>
>> The Windows version does something completely unrelated.
>>
>> As for Ctrl-X Ctrl-E, it doesn't do anything in my setup.
>
> That's strange. I don't have it explicitly enabled in .inputrc, but
> `bind -p` shows it as
>
> "\C-x\C-e": edit-and-execute-command
>
> So you should be able to add that to your .inputrc. Or pick a key
> binding that suits you better.

Hmmm, this is getting into a corner of bash that I'm completely new
to. I appreciate the pointer, but I'm going to squirrel this away for
future reference. I'm pretty happy with the vi functionality for now.

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