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bash vi mode
Authored by: googoo on Fri, Aug 31 2007 at 8:48AM PDT

For those of you who prefer vi, you can set bash to use vi-style editing by adding the following line to your .bashrc file.

set -o vi

Then you delete a word by pressing escape followed by dw. When you are done, enter i to go back to insert mode so you can continue typing your command.

-Mark