edit-and-execute-command; minus the "execute" part?

[Dabrien 'Dabe' Murphy]

Is it possible to "C-xC-e" /without/ immediately executing the resulting 
command?

To my mind, "editing" the buffer and "executing" it are two different 
things -- the latter having potentially dire consequences...

I'd prefer it if, after exiting my $EDITOR, bash simply stuffed the 
results back into my readline buffer.  Particularly, if I decide to 
abandon my changes, I find it worrisome that the shell goes ahead and 
executes the previous command anyway.  (I guess I've grown accustomed to 
SVN's behavior, for example, where if you don't make any changes to your 
commit message, it gives you the option to abort the entire transaction.)

Cheers!

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:- Dabe