Re: Sourcing .vimrc for use in bash shell?

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.

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