After years of using Vim and Bash this was a relief that I learned way too late. For the lazy ones $ cat >~/.inputrc set editing-mode vi set keymap vi

After years of using Vim and Bash this was a relief that I learned way too late. For the lazy ones $ cat >~/.inputrc set editing-mode vi set keymap vi $if mode=vi set keymap vi-insert "jj": vi-movement-mode $endif Obviously you want to change vi-movement-mode to your favorite ESC style. E.g. searching through your last git commands becomes 'jj/git' then (you have to go to movement mode first, as insert mode is the default in the shell - which makes kind of sense).