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		terminus on Jan 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quick tip for developers who use OS X I would imagine that .inputrc would serve as a superset in that all programs (for instance gdb) whiich use readline would now default to vi mode.

jknupp on Jan 14, 2014 | [–]

This is the most useful thing I've heard this (short) year. I've always been looking for a way to make readline globally default to vi mode. Thanks for that.

bilalq on Jan 14, 2014 | [–]

Indeed. It also works in things like irb, for example.

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