Command-line editing re-visited.
Rolf Turner <rolf at math.unb.ca> writes:
(a) Now my ``m'' key won't work in R!!! When I press ``m'' the machine just beeps. All other keys seem to work O.K. What's going on and how do I fix it? (The ``m'' key is only recalcitrant in R; if I quit R and go back to the Unix shell, ``m'' works fine.)
Beats me... What happens if you precede it with ^V ?
Well, to answer Prof. Vogels' question, I was just following the instructions in ``An Introduction to R'' by Venables and Smith, et al. They ***mention*** that command line editing can be made to work with vi syntax, but they don't say ***how***. (At least I couldn't find the ``how''; mebbe I'm just blind.) So, I now come to my QUESTION: How ***do*** you persuade the R command-line editor to use vi syntax? Ideally I would like to be able to put something into an ``init'' file (.Renviron???) so that I always get vi syntax when I fire up R. Failing that, something that I can put into a .First() function.
hit ESC then Ctr-j or put the command "vi-editing-mode" in your ~/.inputrc
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