Bash in vi-mode: browsing shell history with cursor up/down, cursor position not at the end?

Question

I'm very fond of vim and really would like to enhance my bash experience with vi-mode. However one thing I'm so accustomed to the emacs behavior in that, when browsing the shell history with cursor up/down, the cursor is positioned at the end of the line.

In vi-mode it's the other way around; the cursor is always positioned at the beginning of the line. It's really burned in the brain to expect the cursor at the end, having used bash in emacs mode for ... way too long.

Any chance to get the cursor position by default at the end of the line in bash vi-mode when browsing through the shell history?

Answer 1

I don't know of a way of doing this short of re-coding the history code inside of bash (or readline, really).

However, is it really so hard to enter Shift-A once you've found your line to start appending at the end?

If you're going to ditch emacs mode then, at some point, you're going to have to do it totally and accept the vi way of doing things. Join us, you know you want to :-)