loosing vi mode in terminal My favorite text editor beeing VIM made me add the follwing line to my ~/.bashrc

set -o vi


As expected, hitting escape lets me execute a vi command, BUT ONLY ONE ?!?
For example if I do this: 

escape, b, b


it jumps to the beginning of the word and then types "b" to the line instead of jumping another word back.

This happens on all my osx boxes (10.6 and 10.7) and non of the linuxes I use. 

Anyone else experiencing this? Or is this expected?
You can use C-xC-e to go into editor mode. This will use vim if your $EDITOR is set to vim. Also, if you switch to zsh there are options to have a psuedo-normal mode on the command line. See this blog post describing it: http://www.civet.ws/?p=165