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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Shell vim defaulting to Insert or Command mode Post 303011689 by derndingle on Monday 22nd of January 2018 12:17:19 PM
Old 01-22-2018
Shell vim defaulting to Insert or Command mode
On a daily basis I need to SSH into several different RHEL servers using Putty.

On some of the servers, if I up arrow to get a previous command, it automatically starts in Input Mode, so if I press up arrow, then 'x' it will type the letter x at the end of the command line. On other servers, it automatically starts in Command Mode, so if press up arrow, then 'x' it deletes the first character of the command.

I'm trying to understand how this default behavior is controlled. I've looked through the .bashrc, .bash_profile, .vimrc files and don't think I see where this is being set.

I prefer the second way since I spent many years working on AIX and that's the way it worked, but the biggest thing is I'd like is to make it consistent.

It seems like there must be a simple answer, but I must be using the wrong search terms trying to find it. Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

bvnc

bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)					      General Commands Manual					       bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)

NAME

       bssh/bvnc/bshell - Browse for SSH/VNC servers on the local network

SYNOPSIS

       bssh

       bvnc

       bshell

DESCRIPTION

       bssh/bvnc/bshell  browses  for  SSH/VNC	servers  on  the  local  network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls
       ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made.

       If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown. If the binary is called as bvnc only VNC servers  will  be  shown.  If  the
       binary is called as bshell both VNC and SSH servers are shown.

OPTIONS

       -s | --ssh
	      Browse for SSH servers (and only SSH servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -v | --vnc
	      Browse for VNC servers (and only VNC servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -S | --shell
	      Browse for both VNC and SSH servers regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -d | --domain= DOMAIN
	      Browse in the specified domain. If omitted bssh/bvnc/bshell will browse in the default browsing domain (usually .local)

       -h | --help
	      Show help.

AUTHORS

       The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

SEE ALSO

       avahi-browse(1), ssh(1), vncviewer(1)

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

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