For users who have built years of muscle memory using emacs-y shortcuts in bash, like ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k, ctrl-u, ctrl-w, alt-f, alt-b ... and so on, you can have best of the both worlds by using the shortcut ctrl-x ctrl-e which will edit current bash readline in $EDITOR.
For users who have built years of muscle memory using emacs-y shortcuts in bash, like
ctrl-a,ctrl-e,ctrl-k,ctrl-u,ctrl-w,alt-f,alt-b... and so on, you can have best of the both worlds by using the shortcutctrl-x ctrl-ewhich will edit current bash readline in$EDITOR.You can see a demo of it in this blog post: dev.to/chhajedji/bash-edit-command...