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eddyg • yesterday at 8:00 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

^X^E in bash takes your current prompt and moves it to your $EDITOR.

for zsh:

  autoload edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey '^X^E' edit-command-line

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amdivia • today at 12:02 PM

Or v for those using bash's vi mode

seanhunter • today at 11:22 AM

or just type "fc" to edit the previous command.

Macha • yesterday at 10:41 PM

Other shortcuts to edit prompt in editor:

Alt-e for fish

Ctrl-g for Claude code

KingMob • today at 5:18 AM

Right, but if all terminals behaved like modern pieces of software, we would take functionality like Warp's as given, instead of suggesting workarounds.

What you describe sorta works, but you lose things like file/dir-based autocomplete, since your editor doesn't know about your shell session.