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> Ctrl + x + Ctrl + e : launch editor defined by $EDITOR to input your command. Useful for multi-line commands. --

Great, I was just trying to remember that key combination the other day. Just got back to work after being for awhile for a child bonding leave.

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If your $VISUAL is overwrought with plugins (ahem) you can set $FCEDIT to something lighter.

Is that Ctrl+x, Ctrl+e? Or Ctrl+x+e? Or both controls?

all these work for me

  - C-x, C-e (separately)
  - C-(x,e)  (hold ctrl, x and e separately)
  - C-(x+e)  (hold ctrl-x and press e)

it's c-x followed by c-e although no need to release the control key that I'm aware of. The c-x is in the same family as alt-x (sometimes called "meta-x") which is a similar Emacs "mode switching" leader keystroke

You can read about the gory details in "man 3 readline": https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man3/readline....

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