[R] Vi mode in Linux console - how to stop it ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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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