@schpet oh! Hmmmm… sounds like you’d have to replace...

@schpet oh! Hmmmm… sounds like you’d have to replace or hook into readline. Sorry no idea.

Like 8 July at 21:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on me.dm

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peter

@alloydflanagan huh – so after looking into a bit i found out that bash supports this via ctrl-x-e:

**edit-and-execute-command (C-x C-e)**

this... is something i would have liked to have known a decade ago. now i need to find the equivalent in fish

9 July at 14:39 | Open on mastodon.social

peter

@alloydflanagan OK, i think it's `Alt`+`E` but for whatever reason alt is giving me grief on a mac

> Alt+E edit the current command line in an external editor. The editor is chosen from the first available of the `$VISUAL` or `$EDITOR` variables.

9 July at 14:50 | Open on mastodon.social

peter

so happy to figure this out

9 July at 15:22 | Open on mastodon.social

@schpet I didn’t know that one either. They didn’t borrow that one from Emacs. There, it runs the current LISP expression.

9 July at 18:34 | Open on me.dm