On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, rivercode wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I am editing a command using default R console in Linux, sometimes it
> is going into "vi mode"...not too sure how/why this happening.
It then
> requires me to use vi commands to edit the line, which is very frustrating
> when I just want to use the delete key instead of "x" to delete a
character.
>
> How do I turn this off ?
The same way as in every other application using readline, for example
a bash shell. Consult 'man readline' (as documented). (Probably
ctrl-e, but you need to find out what *you* did to get it into
vi-mode.)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
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