@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
@alloydflanagan OK, i think it's `Alt`+`E` but for whatever reason alt is giving me grief on a mac
https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#shared-bindings
> 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.