The built-in editor sucks. Cursor movement is oddly defective. There is no built-in help. Even if there were help, editing this string is only semi-natural for experienced C programmers. The man page hints at a solution, then refers to some other document in some unknown location. Defaults should be usable, but this is not. I didn't even guess that this was configurable until I checked for existing bug reports prior to submitting a new one.
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