> Basically, if you know how to competently edit an email, you shouldn't struggle in frustration at editing a big terminal command. I believe that some day ther

> Basically, if you know how to competently edit an email, you shouldn't struggle in frustration at editing a big terminal command. I believe that some day there will be a terminal app you can sit a kid down in front of, and they're be able to fix a typo without any frustration or special knowledge. That day hasn't yet come. In BASH, set $EDITOR to whatever you want - even a GUI editor - and then hit (by default) ctrl-x ctrl-e and it'll open the current line in your editor and when you save+close the editor the command will run. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85391/where-is-the-bash-feature-to-open-a-command-in-editor-documented https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85391/where-is-the-... seems like a decent discussion of the feature, and its footguns (it does execute whatever was in the buffer when you close the editor without confirmation), and even some talk of how to improve it a bit.