keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"

keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"

[Adam Lazur]

I'm a convert to zsh from bash, and there's only one thing that I've
been missing: the ability to open $EDITOR to edit the current line of
input.

In bash with the vi keybindings enabled it is bound to ^[v... I can't
find it in the bash keybinding stuff to give a readline function name.

It would be like what fc does, but acting upon the current input and not
on a command pulled from history.

Anybody have some zsh magic that does this?

-- 
Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey

Re: keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 21,  1:11pm, Adam Lazur wrote:
} Subject: keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"
}
} I'm a convert to zsh from bash, and there's only one thing that I've
} been missing: the ability to open $EDITOR to edit the current line of
} input.

Look at
	info zsh "zle functions"
(or "man zshcontrib" if you don't have the info pages installed) and look
for the function edit-command-line.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
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Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net   

Re: keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"

[Adam Lazur]

Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com) said:
> Look at
> 	info zsh "zle functions"
> (or "man zshcontrib" if you don't have the info pages installed) and look
> for the function edit-command-line.

Exactly what I'm looking for, thanks :)

-- 
Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey

Re: keybinding for "edit current line with $EDITOR"

[Peter Stephenson]

Adam Lazur wrote:
> I'm a convert to zsh from bash, and there's only one thing that I've
> been missing: the ability to open $EDITOR to edit the current line of
> input.
> 
> In bash with the vi keybindings enabled it is bound to v... I can't
> find it in the bash keybinding stuff to give a readline function name.

See the function edit-command-line (!) supplied in the Zle directory of
the distribution; it should be installed with 4.0.4.

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

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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