[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 23:35:00 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> 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.

Bash only AFAIK, although there's probably alternatives for other 
shells. Nice feature, very useful :)