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0 pointsquesera3y ago0 comments

> what did you actually do

Enable vi mode (usually in .zshrc but you can test from the command line):

  set -o vi

Invoke $EDITOR on the current command line:

  ls -la /tmp<Esc><v>

That's Escape, then the lowercase v key (sequentially, not together)

You can use up-arrow to go through command history, reach the one you want to rerun with modifications, then press Esc, v.

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Stranger433y ago

Yes thats how it works for me with bash and ksh(mksh) but with zsh esc -v does not launch $EDITOR but just puts me in visual mode inside of whatever it uses for readline.

I even tried setting editor to something other then vi(scite) and it's clear that where bash and korn lauched $EDITOR on <Esc><v> zsh does not.

My .zsh file on macOS is literally just "set -o vi"

I guess there is some kind of added magic here(are you using the oh-my-ssh macro's) that's just not applied with my deliberately minimalist .zshrc.

queseraOP3y ago

Ah, maybe.

My .zshrc is pretty minimal and hasn't changed in a very long time, but I did find this:

  set -o vi

  # command editing in vi mode (ESC-v)
  autoload -U edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line

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