How to repeat commands from history in ksh vi-mode

Question

Say I have a hundred commands in my shell's history, and now I'd like to repeat commands 74 through 78. In the emacs mode of bash/ksh/zsh, I would navigate back to command 74 then hit Control-O on each command to execute it and continue with the next. In vi mode I can navigate back to command 74 readily enough, but how do I then execute it and see command 75?

Answer 1

Press <esc>, then 'k' until you get to the one you want, or something like '7k' if you know how many back, then enter to execute.

Answer 2

Try this:

set -o emacs

You may be in vi mode. You can add the line above to your ~/.profile file.

Or you can add the following to your ~/.kshrc file:

: ${EDITOR:=emacs}