I've enabled VIM style editing of bash commands at the bash prompt as default bash setting. On a few occasions I've accidentally opened a blank vim file with some complex bash command I was writing.
Awesome. How do I get the newly written line in vim back into bash? I found another post where the author had the opposite trouble--or so it seems.
What steps put my bash prompt commands into vim and then back again to bash to execute?
Ctrl+X Ctrl+E will insert your bash command into vim.
To exit vim:
If you are editing (--INSERT-- or --REPLACE-- appears at the bottom), press Esc.
Then press:
:wq or ZZ to save and exit.
:q! to quit without saving.
When you're in normal mode (e.g, when h and l move the cursor left and right), type v to edit the line in vi, or in the editor specified by $VISUAL or $EDITOR. When you're done, just save the buffer as you would after editing any other file, using ZZ or :wq as you prefer.
I believe ctrl-x, ctrl-e is what you want. Writing the file as normal should execute it i think. So :wq in vim.
