If you are working with a complicated command in the terminal trying to get
the arguments just right. Such as this curl
:
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers \
-u sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2: \
-d description="Customer for [email protected]" \
-d source=tok_189fCz2eZvKYlo2CsGERUNIW
It can be tedious to move to and modify various parts of the command.
However, by hitting Ctrl-x Ctrl-e
, the contents of the command buffer
will be opened into your default editor (i.e. $EDITOR
). This will make
editing the command a bit easier. Saving and quitting the editor will put
the updated command in the command buffer, ready to run.
Hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-e
with an empty command buffer if you want to start
crafting a command from scratch or if you are pasting one in from somewhere.
h/t Josh Davey