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When in a bash terminal, if I hit ESC or Shift + Tab the command line goes to the history where I can move around to previous bash commands with vi-like bindings. I get messed up when in this mode since I will unintentionally run various commands. I can only get out of this by hitting a or i.

I hit ESC and Shift + Tab frequently (though, accidentally) in my normal usage and I would like to disable this history search mode altogether.

Edit: The event also occurs when I hit any of F1 through F12 (except F4 and F11), pause/break, delete, home, pgup, and pgdn. I'm beginning to think it's related to unbound keys or perhaps something weird with my keyboard.

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  • I cannot reproduce this. If I hit Esc, nothing happens and if I hit Shift+Tab nothing happens as well. In order to browse my command history I have to hit Ctrl+R. All these with gnome-terminal. What terminal are you using?
    – hytromo
    Jul 21, 2014 at 16:20
  • When I do "echo $TERM" it returns "xterm". I figure that's how to tell which terminal I'm using.
    – mickwar
    Jul 21, 2014 at 23:26
  • What system are you using? Ubuntu, KUbuntu, XUbuntu... ?
    – hytromo
    Jul 22, 2014 at 14:15
  • I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
    – mickwar
    Jul 22, 2014 at 15:34
  • I'm not sure what echo $TERM does, but it returns xterm for me, even though I'm using terminator.
    – Sparhawk
    Jul 26, 2014 at 3:42

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I was going into some "vi-mode" in the terminal because of a line in my .bashrc file: set -o vi. Removing this line solved my problem.

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