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Script-friendliest $EDITOR with moreutils

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I carry around a (very humble) collection of fzf utilities, where I intend to leverage a tacit promise of Vim: I can edit content, right there in the terminal, between two commands, and be done earlier than a corporate IDE would be flashing its splash screen1.

But let's put aside the speed: I mean to talk about the availability and convenience.

With moreutils, this elevator pitch needs to be challenged: between two commands? Laughable. The adept functional programmer in me should have sniffed it out some time ago: I can use Vim like I use sed.

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