Question about vi-mode

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From: Trip Martin
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 02:38

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I realize this group is for bash bugs, but I couldn't find any other
group which was more suitable.  My apologies if this is the wrong group.

I just got bash up and running on a 3B2, and looking through the
documentation, I noticed that the only way to enter vi-mode is by
having a .inputrc when the program is first run.  There are times when
I would like to be able to switch to vi-mode after bash is already
running.  Why is the extra rc file (.inputrc) necessary, and why is
that the only way to enter vi-mode?  


Trip Martin  KA2LIV       night@pawl.rpi.edu
Finite state machinist    night@uruguay.acm.rpi.edu
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Trip Martin  KA2LIV       night@pawl.rpi.edu
Finite state machinist    night@uruguay.acm.rpi.edu

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From: night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Question about vi-mode
Message-ID: <1989Nov9.023842.28689@rpi.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 02:38:42 GMT
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