vim mode in interactive python

[Timothy Grant]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:52:26AM +0000, Donn Cave wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the input Donn. However, readline is definitely
available, so something else must be going on somewhere.

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Stand Fast,
    tjg.

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