Just tried this with "zfs -f", and I still get the same behaviour. I'm
definitely at a PS1 prompt, I'm triggering the editor before I type
anything on the current line at all.

My zsh version is 5.8 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 21:46, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 11:18 PM Muhmud Ahmad
> <muhmud.ahmad@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway to stop this behaviour, and just have my command on the
> same line where I started the editor?
>
> I'm not able to reproduce this at the PS1 prompt, that is, for me the
> buffer is restored at the current prompt.  At the PS2 prompt, starting
> a new PS1 prompt is unavoidable because the existing ZLE "session" has
> to be restarted in order to merge the previously-entered lines
> ($PREBUFFER) with the current line ($BUFFER).
>