[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Justin Whear]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:51:41 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:53:34PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 17:04:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >It's a miniscule time savings, but it does add up when you're editing
>> >a complex command-line pipeline.
>> 
>> You know what would actually be huge for me? The mouse. If you have a
>> 200 character command line, just clicking it would be so nice.
>> 
>> I'm sure there's some ctrl+meta+alt that can do it too, but I don't
>> know my emacs (and readline's vi mode is weak).
> 
> There's a vi mode to readline??
> 
> My ideal, actually, would be to liberate the command-line from its
> single-line restriction. It would be in insert mode by default, to cater
> for the common case, but hitting ESC would put it into navigation mode,
> where you can use vi movement keys to navigate. You could construct the
> command in a block (almost like a one-off shell script) before
> committing and executing it.

Do you know about C-x C-e?  If EDITOR is set to "vi" it should open the 
current command in vi as a temp file, allow you to edit, and when you 
write and quit it'll execute it.  Not sure if this is Bash only or 
universal.