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OK, so for vim users with zsh:

bindkey -v

Now be happy, hit <ESC> and, use ^ and $ but also f<letter> t<letter> and also ,;.

You can copy/paste with dd, Y, etc...

set -o vi does the trick for vim. Most vi commands work, but when you type <ESC>v this will open vi to edit your command line, in case you feel any command is missing.

I've b een using vi-mode in the shell for a while,but haven't been able to get the <ESC>v behavior you described. Did you have to do anything to make that behave?

I haven't done anything, my version works under Mac OS X.

Fyi, bash also has vi-mode (set -o vi).

bash uses GNU readline, while ZSH has it's own readline. IIRC the Emacs-/Vi-modes in bash are support from readline. (this is also why you configure some of these things via .inputrc for Bash rather than .bashrc).

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