lauching editor on command line input

lauching editor on command line input

[Matthew Braun]

Say I'm using command history (ie. up arrow in emacs mode) to go back to
a multi-line command (like a for loop), is there way to setup a
keystroke to launch an editor (ie. vi/emacs) on the current command
line.  Kind of like you can do with 'fc -e vi' to edit the last command
that was run?

Also, is there a way to avoid the command being run (and instead put you
back to the zle command line input mode) when you exit the editor from
running the 'fc -e' command.

Thanks for any info...

Matthew.

Re: lauching editor on command line input

[Zefram]

Something like this should work:

bindkey -a "^A^A" beginning-of-buffer-or-history
bindkey -a "^A^E" end-of-buffer-or-history
bindkey -a "^A'" quote-line
bindkey -as some_key_sequence "^A'^A^AIprint -r -- ^[^A^EA > /tmp/z\$\$;vi /tmp/z\$\$;print -z -- \$(< /tmp/z\$\$)^M"

This is untested.

-zefram