Use vi editor in shell

Posted by worldofprasanna on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:53AM
from the worldofprasanna.github.io dept.

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Re:Use vi editor in shell by yoo1I on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:40AM (#12928985)

This fails to mention the most vi-in-a-shell-yness:

Press "v" and launch your currently typed command into a vim (or whatever $EDITOR is set to) editing buffer.

Very useful for adhoc-but-long if or while statements.

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Re:Use vi editor in shell by worldofprasanna on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:43AM (#12948854)

Hi .. I couldn t do this .. Pressing "v" enables visual mode and only the text is selected.

Above link explains the usage, but I couldn t use it for some reason even after setting EDITOR variable.

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Re:Use vi editor in shell by yoo1I on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:51PM (#12990382)

not to leave you hanging there; this is what I found in my .zshrc to enable the functionality.

  autoload edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line

... could've sworn that was included more default-y

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Re:Use vi editor in shell by worldofprasanna on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:57PM (#13020168)

Hey thanks yoo1l. It worked like charm ...

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