This isn't enabled by default. You have to configure zsh with some optional features. I found this on Stack Overflow: autoload -z edit-command-line zle

This isn't enabled by default. You have to configure zsh with some optional features. I found this on Stack Overflow: autoload -z edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line bindkey "^X^E" edit-command-line [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-command-line-in-full-screen-editor-in-zsh https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-co...