diff --git a/bash-abbr b/bash-abbr
index a939959..036b444 100644
--- a/bash-abbr
+++ b/bash-abbr
@@ -353,10 +353,18 @@ bash_abbr () {
     #      called as many times as possible before recursion would happen.
     #      This is pretty hard, and surely even harder to do efficiently,
     #      so it will probably never be implemented.
-    bind -x '"\e\C-an": _try_abbrev ""'
-    bind    '"\e\C-j": accept-line'
-    bind    '"\C-m": "\e\C-an\e^\e\C-j"'
-    bind    '"\C-j": "\C-m"'
+    bind_if -x '"\e\C-an": _try_abbrev ""'
+    bind_if    '"\e\C-j": accept-line'
+    bind_if    '"\C-m": "\e\C-an\e^\e\C-j"'
+    bind_if    '"\C-j": "\C-m"'
+}
+
+has_line_editing () {
+    shopt -qo emacs || shopt -qo vi
+}
+
+bind_if () {
+    has_line_editing && builtin bind "$@" || true
 }
 
 bash_abbr