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 1.5 Readline vi Mode
 ====================
 
 While the Readline library does not have a full set of `vi' editing
 functions, it does contain enough to allow simple editing of the line.
 The Readline `vi' mode behaves as specified in the POSIX 1003.2
 standard.
 
    In order to switch interactively between `emacs' and `vi' editing
 modes, use the command `M-C-j' (bound to emacs-editing-mode when in
 `vi' mode and to vi-editing-mode in `emacs' mode).  The Readline
 default is `emacs' mode.
 
    When you enter a line in `vi' mode, you are already placed in
 `insertion' mode, as if you had typed an `i'.  Pressing <ESC> switches
 you into `command' mode, where you can edit the text of the line with
 the standard `vi' movement keys, move to previous history lines with
 `k' and subsequent lines with `j', and so forth.
 
    This document describes the GNU Readline Library, a utility for
 aiding in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs
 that need to provide a command line interface.
 
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