Add Edit The Current Command Prompt as a Bash TIL

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ working across different projects via [VisualMode](https://www.visualmode.dev/).
 
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-_1745 TILs and counting..._
+_1746 TILs and counting..._
 
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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ If you've learned something here, support my efforts writing daily TILs by
 * [Ansible](#ansible)
 * [Astro](#astro)
 * [AWS](#aws)
+* [Bash](#bash)
 * [Brew](#brew)
 * [Chrome](#chrome)
 * [Claude Code](#claude-code)
@@ -126,6 +127,10 @@ If you've learned something here, support my efforts writing daily TILs by
 - [Turn Off Output Pager For A Command](aws/turn-off-output-pager-for-a-command.md)
 - [Use Specific AWS Profile With CLI](aws/use-specific-aws-profile-with-cli.md)
 
+### Bash
+
+- [Edit The Current Command Prompt](bash/edit-the-current-command-prompt.md)
+
 ### Brew
 
 - [Clean Up Your Brew Installations](brew/clean-up-your-brew-installations.md)

bash/edit-the-current-command-prompt.md

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+# Edit The Current Command Prompt
+
+A neat feature of `bash` is the ability to open whatever the current state of
+the command prompt is into your default editor.
+
+Let's say we have a really long command that we've just tried to run, but it
+failed and we need to make a small change somewhere in the middle. Instead of
+holding the left arrow key for 30 seconds, we can instead hit `CTRL-X CTRL-E`.
+
+This pops us into our `EDITOR` (or maybe `VISUAL`, not sure which). In my case,
+that is `nvim`. I now have access to all the features I'm used to in `nvim` for
+quickly navigating to and editing, searching and replacing, or whatever.
+
+Once I've got the command how I like it, I can save and exit (`:wq`) and the
+updated command will be executed.
+
+This is similar to [the `fc` builtin](unix/fix-previous-command-with-fc.md),
+which also happens to be available for `zsh`.