- For editing long commands, after setting your editor (for example [48;5;8m export EDITOR=vim [0m), [1m[38;5;15mctrl-x[0m [1m[38;5;15mctrl-e[0m will open the current command in an editor for multi-line editing. Or in vi style, [1m[38;5;15mescape-v[0m.