i think you should use vared, eg:

VARIABLE="somevalue"vared -p "PROMPT: " VARIABLE


Il giorno mar 15 ago 2023 alle 19:47 Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> ha
scritto:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, at 10:11 AM, Budi wrote:
> > What is zsh equivalent for :
> >
> > read -e -i "This is pre written text " t
>
>
> https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Shell-Builtin-Commands.html#index-read
>
> > get user into readline
>
> zsh does not use readline.
>
> --
> vq
>
> --
Pier Paolo Grassi