Re: command line vi style editing - is that possible?

[Chet Ramey]

ggolub wrote:
> Hi folks.
> I am new to bash. I was using korn for long time. One of the feature I
> really miss is command line vi editing.
> Here is an example:
> osql -E -S.<<!
> select name from sysdatabases
> go
> !
> This code will connect to sql database and return name of existing db's. 
> If i want to re-run and edit this execution in korn, i would press: Esc,
> --... untill i see this line of execution. At that time if i press 'v',
> whole multi line will open in vi editor, where i can edit it and after 'zz',
> it will execute it.
> What I can achieve with bash is next: when I run 'set -o vi', i can scroll
> history file. But it only shows me first line. I can't get it into vi too.
> Do you know how I can get similar and convenient command line handling in
> bash as I had one with korn/

This isn't really a problem with vi editing.  The bash command history
doesn't store the contents of here-documents in the history list.  I
will look at adding that in a future version.

Chet

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