Bash, readline, initial mode with vi line-editing

From: Peter Scott (p.scott_at_shu.ac.uk)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: 20 May 2004 06:46:23 -0700

Hey Folks,

On Redhat 8.0, with bash 2.05b and readline 4.3, vi line-editing
starts in insert mode.

On the other Unixes I use, it starts in command mode which seems more
natural as I usually want to move about and edit the line, for
example: wwwcwfred<return>".

It wasn't like this with bash 2.05a on earlier Redhats, and having two
behaviours is a time-waster.

Does anyone know how to fix this or where to look?

TIA,
     Peter

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