Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)

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saurav shrestha Permalink
August 09, 2011, 22:34

Firstly thanks for the wonderful cli-experience-changing tutorial!

I have but one gripe that I'm trying to sort out. Whenever I try to edit the command in 'vi' itself by pressing the 'v' key, it opens up in nano!

If someone would be willing to show how to fix this, it'd be much appreciated.

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Angus Warren Permalink
September 08, 2011, 04:43

You need to update your $EDITOR variable to reflect the editor that you prefer.

Add this line to your .bashrc:

export EDITOR=vim

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