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131 points tomschafer | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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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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1. 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 :)