Re: bash/readline emacs mode help

[C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>]

Thanks David -- I should've tried EDITOR first :)

Regards,
Kashyap


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:47 PM, J. David Boyd <david@adboyd.com> wrote:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>
> > C. K. Kashyap [2013-06-27 14:44:21 +05:30] wrote:
> >
> >> One of the things I get with this mode is the ability to open up vi to
> >> edit a command line (using Escape v) [...]
> >>
> >> I was wondering if there is an equivalent in emacs mode?
> >
> > In Emacs editing mode the key "C-x C-e" (edit-and-execute-command) opens
> > the text editor defined in $VISUAL or $EDITOR variables (or "emacs").
>
> Doesn't seem all that useful though.  I have my $EDITOR set to be
> "emacsclient -n", which doesn't work at all in this circumstance.
>
> If I get rid of the '-n' it works fine, but I'm not doing that....
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