(25-04-2017, 06:11 AM)z3bra Wrote: I love vi's modes, it makes text edition really powerful and convenient, but for line edition, it is a waste of time. In vi, you spend most of the time in normal mode, while in term, you're in insert mode 90% of the time. This makes using normal mode inneficient and tiresome. It took me a few weeks to assimilate the readline basic moves (M-f, M-b, ...) but it is definitely worth it!

Same here, I switched away from vi mode but for another reason: I want to keep things vanilla.

I'm sshing into a bunch of machine and I thought it would be better to just get accustomed to the default keybinds instead of vi.

Also a misconception I had about those keybinds is that they are "terminal keybinds" and not "Emacs keybinds", though some of them are in fact Emacs too, like the M-f and M-b. Most of the others are just plain line-discipline interpretation.

These days I'm using zsh but for only one feature: the explanation of the command line arguments on completion.
For the rest I'm using whatever comes on the machine (except C shells).