Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:
>
> On Mar 21, 2017, at 18:21, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> >> vim $(port logfile thePort)
> >
> > ...and the port you installed will usually get expanded with <esc>.
> (bash/zsh, in default emacs mode) so you don't even need to type that :)
>
> I'm not aware of this. Can you explain how to make this work?
>

That was a little unclear... escape key followed by period.


> You mention "emacs mode"... I don't know what that is.
>

Unless you're disabling it for some reason, you have advanced line editing,
generally via readline. (If the arrow keys work for history, you have it.)

If control-p / control-n goes through history, you are in emacs mode.
If pressing <esc> then using j and k goes through history, you are in vi
mode.

(It turns out that, for whatever reason, readline doesn't bind
yank-last-arg in vi mode. :/ http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2011/12/01/readline/
 )

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