I used to waste significant energy trying to edit shell commands at the shell command prompt. Yes, I could use vi mode on readline, but that never quite gave me the same, rich experience. I found it helpful for minor edits, but when someone introduced me to the edit-and-execute command, my entire relationship with command-line tools changed. Once I had the full power of my trusted text editor to compose and edit commands, I stopped valuing GUI clients as highly and I started valuing the scrip...
