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32.5 Readline vi Mode    When you enter a line in vi mode, you
are already placed in `insertion' mode, as if you had typed an
‘i’. Pressing <ESC> switches you into `command' mode, where you
can edit the text of the line with the standard vi movement
keys, move to previous history lines with ‘k’ and subsequent
lines with ‘j’, and so forth.