vim mode in interactive python
Donn Cave
donn at oz.net
Fri Apr 20 00:52:26 EDT 2001
Quoth Timothy Grant <tjg at hyperlinq.net>:
| For some reason, I had never thought about the possibility of
| making interactive python use vim key bindings, but as I was
| reading the docs for the new release I read about setting vim
| keybindings by putting the following line in .inputrc
|
| set editing-mode vi
|
| I have done so, but I don't get vim bindings. What might I be
| doing wrong?
You might be trying to use a python install that lacks a readline
module. Try "import readline" - if that works, I'm wrong.
I bet that's it, though. I'm starting to think about a Python 2.1
binary release, for my favorite platform, and while I have built
readline I'm unlikely to include it in the release. Previous
binary releases were built by someone else, and I believe he
found that including readline earned him a big hassle from one
or more GNU zealots. The module is nice but not necessary in
my opinion, and I don't need the trouble.
Donn Cave, donn at oz.net
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