I'd like to open an editor buffer in ZSH using edit-command-line and have the contents of the buffer executed by xonsh.
Is it possible to do this cleanly?
The edit-command-line command in ZSH lets you edit a command line using your editor, which can then be executed by the ZSH interpreter.
It is especially useful for complicated, multi-line, commands.
xonsh is a Python-powered shell using Python as the scripting language. I prefer Python to the ZSH language when writing complicated commands.
Extra-credit: It would be nice to tell the editor to use Python syntax highlighting, instead of ZSH.
Thanks!
Note: I can invoke xonsh in the following manner, but it's ugly and the syntax highlighting is wrong:
echo "
<python code>
" | xonsh