Personally, I put these lines in my ~/.inputrc. It allows the vi key-bindings to still work but a few of the non-vi ones can leak through. set keymap vi-inser

Personally, I put these lines in my ~/.inputrc. It allows the vi key-bindings to still work but a few of the non-vi ones can leak through. set keymap vi-insert C-p: previous-history C-n: next-history C-b: backward-char C-f: forward-char C-a: beginning-of-line C-e: end-of-line C-l: clear-screen