C-x C-e doesn't do anything in my configuration but beyond that I find that editing long freeform text on the command line gets annoying fast if only because of the careful escaping you have to do, especially for nested quotes.
In zsh (and bash I think) it opens the entire line in a buffer, making it easy to edit it in ways which wouldn't really work well at the shell.
> beyond that I find that editing long freeform text on the command line gets annoying fast if only because of the careful escaping you have to do, especially for nested quotes.
Oh I agree. Here I'd suggest it for the rare case where I was expecting to write a simple commit message and end up needing a much longer one, though usually I'd just create the commit and immediately "amend" into a proper text editor (and most of the time I use a text editor directly, because rare are the commits where the short desc is sufficient).
