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Anyone have a better input control for terminals? I have this same issue and have never been able to better it.

• yunohn 5y ago
  +1, I can salvage some level of text editing functionality with a black-box incantation of bash settings, but it never feels perfect and half of the shortcuts still fail to work. Basic stuff - like jumping/selecting words, going to the start/end of the line, anything really - needs configuration. Even worse, half of it breaks when I ssh into another machine.
  • eddieh 5y ago
    At the shell prompt type Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to edit in your $EDITOR
    • yunohn 5y ago
      That’s already more effort than not needing to do anything, because the terminal isn’t a weirdo text input relative to my IDE/editor.
      • eddieh 5y ago
        I agree. That’s why I mostly use Eshell in Emacs, but if for some reason I’m in a stand-alone terminal emulator and need some advanced editing capabilities ^X ^E saves the day by firing up Emacs on the current input.