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[chasen at world.std.com (Franklin H. Chasen)]

I encountered the "set -o vi" problem when I upgraded to RH6.1. I solved
the problem by commenting out the "INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc" line in
/etc/profile.

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, dan moylan wrote:

> 
> pblm 1:
>   i've recently upgraded to rh6.2 and find that things somehow work
>   differently.  the most confusing (after i moved /dev/modem from 
>   cua1 to ttyS1) is that my shell, bash, seems not the same.  i.e.
>   in .profile (and i've removed .bashrc, etc.) i have "set -o vi"
>   (i know, real weenies all use emacs, but it's not my cup of tea)
>   and it "doesn't take".
> 
>   i type "set -o vi" and it still doesn't take!!
>   i launch a new bash shell, type "set -o vi" and all is as it used
>   to be.  hmmm!
> 
>   what's going on?
> 
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