[H-GEN] bash wierdness

[Martin Pool]

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Robert Stuart wrote:

> I like to use vi style command line editing with bash (ie set -o vi).
> This works fine if I turn it on via the command line.  However, if I put
> "set -o vi" in my .profile (I've removed all the usual startup scripts
> from the home dir ie .cshrc .bashrc .bash_profile etc), it doesn't work
> and I can not do a set -o vi to make it work at this point either.
> 
> This happens on RH6.0, but doing the same things on RH5.2 seems to work.

The rules for when various dotfiles are read changed between bash-1.x
and bash-2.0 IIRC, and I think rh6 has upgraded to bash-2.  So read the
manpage to make sure your .profile is being read at the appropriate time
-- I think this setting probably belongs in .bashrc instead, since you
presumably want to set it on every bash shell, not just your login
shell.

HTH,
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