2015-03-18 From now on, this is what I'll do first on each new system I set up: cat >>/etc/inputrc <<-! set bell-style visible set editing-mode vi ! Debianforum.de once again provided an interesting problem for me. [0] I like these questions a lot because I usually learn from them. [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=154428 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke