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131 points tomschafer | 7 comments | 15 Nov 24 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source | bottom
1. bloopernova ◴[15 Nov 24 17:31 UTC] No.42148959[source]▶
A useful feature of bash and zsh is the "edit command". The standard shortcut is "ctrl-x ctrl-e".

It opens the current command line in $EDITOR, which often defaults to vim.

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2. ◴[15 Nov 24 17:37 UTC] No.42149026[source]▶
3. dmd ◴[15 Nov 24 17:38 UTC] No.42149043[source]▶
That is very useful. What does it have to do with this?
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4. bloopernova ◴[15 Nov 24 17:41 UTC] No.42149078[source]▶
If you want to search and replace a command line, there's tools to do it in your favourite editor.
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5. dmd ◴[15 Nov 24 17:42 UTC] No.42149103{3}[source]▶
Ah, so you didn't click through and actually see what this tool is, you just read the title.
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6. bloopernova ◴[15 Nov 24 17:45 UTC] No.42149135{4}[source]▶
I did click through, but misinterpreted what it was doing. Apologies, I'm "multitasking".
7. indentit ◴[17 Nov 24 11:09 UTC] No.42163452[source]▶
I tried this out, and nothing happened. Then I discovered that it has to be enabled first, for example by: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/34251/152147 Thanks for sharing, learnt something new :)