~/.inputrc setting 'set editing-mode vi' ignored

[bwagner]

~/.inputrc setting 'set editing-mode vi' ignored, even if it seems to be working for other programs, i.e. bash.

Mac OS X: 10.11.6 (El Capitan) grenchman 0.2.0 Leiningen 2.6.1 on Java 1.8.0_05

[WillChilds-Klein]

i've found that rlwrap (available via homebrew) provides a viable workaround for this issue. my ~/.inputrc:

set completion-ignore-case on
set editing-mode vi
$if mode=vi
    set keymap vi-command
    set keymap vi-insert
    "\C-l": "\e\C-la"
    "jk": vi-movement-mode 
$endif

I invoke grench like so:

$ rlwrap -a placeholder -t dumb grench repl

apparently, some placeholder argument is required for -a on OSX's distribution of rlwrap, but not on linux's...

this is the only solution I've found that gives both lein repl and grench repl the keybindings specified in my inputrc, which I get for free with bash, cpython, and other readline-native interpreters.

• OSX 10.12.6
• grench 0.1.0 (per grench -v, although homebrew thinks it's 0.2.0)
• lein 2.7.1
• java 1.8.0_05

the Clojure Programming wiki book's "Getting Started" section initially pointed me in this direction.