[~bash $]

I am running bash 3.2 in xterm in X11, and being a lover of all things vi/vim, I finally changed my line-edit mode to vi using:

set -o vi

Does anyone know how to set that default other than adding it to the .bash_profile, etc.? Actually, the question I had was the following. I read in a book that the

ctrl + L

behavior, which clears screen in the default emacs-like mode, should also work to clear the screen in vi mode. However I just get the printed character: ^L, which is annoying since it's the ONLY emacs command I actually can remember. It's really useful . Anyway, does anyone know how I can preserve the ctrl+L behavior in vi mode to clear the screen?

Thanks ...

[~bash $]

add this to your .bashrc, etc:

bind -m vi-insert “\C-l”:clear-screen