ZSH – How to Edit Command Line in Full Screen Editor in ZSH

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In bash, using vi mode, if I hit Esc,v, my current command line is opened in the editor specified by $EDITOR and I am able to edit it in full screen before 'saving' the command to be returned to the shell and executed.

How can I achieve similar behaviour in zsh? Hitting v in command mode results in a bell an has no apparent effect, despite the EDITOR environment variable being set.

Best Answer

See edit-command-line in zshcontrib.

bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line

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set -s escape-time 0

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How to set the editor command to use only for edit-command-line in zsh

The universal way to solve every computer problem¹ is to add a level of indirection.

Instead of calling edit-command-line, call a wrapper function.

nano-command-line () {
  local VISUAL='nano -Y sh'
  edit-command-line
}
zle -N nano-command-line
bindkey '^X^E' nano-command-line

¹ _Hyperbole.

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How to set the editor command to use only for edit-command-line in zsh