{"id":8450,"date":"2014-02-14T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2014-02-14T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:54:02","slug":"opening-terminal-commands-in-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/opening-terminal-commands-in-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Terminal Commands in Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When editing a command in Terminal, you can type Control-X, Control-E to open it in your text editor of choice (via <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/5471\">Wesley Darlington<\/a>). When you save your changes and close the document, the command is executed.<\/p>\n<p>I have my editor set to BBEdit via this line in <tt>~\/.bash_profile<\/tt>:<\/p>\n<pre>export EDITOR=\"bbedit -w\"<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When editing a command in Terminal, you can type Control-X, Control-E to open it in your text editor of choice (via Wesley Darlington). When you save your changes and close the document, the command is executed. I have my editor set to BBEdit via this line in ~\/.bash_profile: export EDITOR=\"bbedit -w\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[767,154,30,318,163],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bash","tag-bbedit","tag-mac","tag-terminal","tag-unix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}