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by yoo1I 3501 days ago
This fails to mention the most vi-in-a-shell-yness:

Press "v" and launch your currently typed command into a vim (or whatever $EDITOR is set to) editing buffer.

Very useful for adhoc-but-long if or while statements.
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worldofprasanna 3498 days ago
Hi .. I couldn t do this .. Pressing "v" enables visual mode and only the text is selected.

https://dougblack.io/words/zsh-vi-mode.html

Above link explains the usage, but I couldn t use it for some reason even after setting EDITOR variable.

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yoo1I 3493 days ago
not to leave you hanging there; this is what I found in my .zshrc to enable the functionality.

  autoload edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line
... could've sworn that was included more default-y
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worldofprasanna 3489 days ago
Hey thanks yoo1l. It worked like charm ...

PS: Blog updated !!! https://worldofprasanna.github.io/using-vi-in-zsh

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