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My biggest improvement was about finding out about .inputrc and configuring the Bash to use VIM-keybindings which is pretty handy if you are used to the editor. Also the following mapping from ESC to pressing jf via

imap jf <ESC>

was very nice as I find it much more ergonomic. And to use it in Bash I have

set editing-mode vi set keymap vi

$if mode=vi set keymap vi-insert "jf": vi-movement-mode $endif

set show-all-if-ambiguous on

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I have my Bash set to vi keybindings, but I had no idea it was possible to remap them. Now I can finally stop hitting escape in Bash too. Thank you so much!

Yeah it is great if you can use similar commands across applications. Btw. there is also a nice history inside VIM (implemented as a separate buffer) that can be accessed using q: so you can scroll through the history with jfkl. E.g. I use that for accessing files: If you are working on a project you will probably edit similar files. If you use one "programming" vim sessions where you always edit files via :tabe you will find all the recent edited files in your history and using q:/ you can search for them pretty fast. So over time you have automatically a working environment adapted to your current project.

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