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Interestingly for me this dont work with .zsh out of the box on my mac(i run a deliberately minimalist .zsh) what did you actually do to enable it.

esc -> v does work both with bash and mksh on ubuntu with stock config but not out of the box with zsh on my macbook so i suspect there is something missing im my one line .zshrc file.

Capital V is an actual vim command btw triggering linewise visual mode and that does somewhat seem to actually seem to be the functionality of shift-v by default in zsh.

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> what did you actually do

Enable vi mode (usually in .zshrc but you can test from the command line):

  set -o vi

Invoke $EDITOR on the current command line:

  ls -la /tmp<Esc><v>

That's Escape, then the lowercase v key (sequentially, not together)

You can use up-arrow to go through command history, reach the one you want to rerun with modifications, then press Esc, v.

Yes thats how it works for me with bash and ksh(mksh) but with zsh esc -v does not launch $EDITOR but just puts me in visual mode inside of whatever it uses for readline.

I even tried setting editor to something other then vi(scite) and it's clear that where bash and korn lauched $EDITOR on <Esc><v> zsh does not.

My .zsh file on macOS is literally just "set -o vi"

I guess there is some kind of added magic here(are you using the oh-my-ssh macro's) that's just not applied with my deliberately minimalist .zshrc.

Ah, maybe.

My .zshrc is pretty minimal and hasn't changed in a very long time, but I did find this:

  set -o vi

  # command editing in vi mode (ESC-v)
  autoload -U edit-command-line
  zle -N edit-command-line
  bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line

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