[yoo1I]

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

[worldofprasanna]

Hey thanks yoo1l. It worked like charm ...

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