Hi all, In using bash over the years, I've been quite happy to be able to hit ctrl-x ctrl-e to pull up an editor when my input has grown too complicated.
When using read -e for input, however, the behavior I find makes a lot less sense: the input line is still opened in an editor, but the result is not processed by read - it is executed by bash. While a means to escape to the shell can certainly be useful it seems like it should generally be done in a more controlled environment. It is much harder to reason about my scripts when arbitrary variables might be overwritten just because I asked for input. In any case I'm not sure it makes sense to conflate this with the "open this line in an editor" command. I'm curious as to the reasoning was behind this behavior (if it was intentional), and whether I'm likely to break anything if I "fix" it. Thanks!
