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		microtonal on June 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sublime Text 3 Public Beta In fact, most shells (e.g. bash and zsh) have the option to switch from Emacs to vi mode.

jonahx on June 29, 2013 [–]

`set -o vi` on bash command line to enter vim mode. life changing.

kree10 on June 29, 2013 | [–]

Also, this will turn on vi-style line editing in programs using GNU readline (things like mysql, psql, sqlite3):

    echo "set editing-mode vi" > ~/.inputrc

For programs linked against libedit instead (as on OS X):

    echo "bind -v" > ~/.editrc

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