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NAME

edit - Open files for editing and manipulating

SYNOPSIS

edit ARGUMENTS

DESCRIPTION

The edit utility is used to open and edit files using your configured editor. It's a quick time-saver that uses the configured $EDITOR in your shell for editing files. All arguments passed into this utility will be passed onward to the configured shell editor program.

edit is provided by homer. For more information, check out:

https://github.com/tubbo/homer#readme

ARGUMENTS

ARGUMENTS Arguments passed to the editor.

EXAMPLES

Open a file with your editor:

edit path/to/my/file.txt

CONFIGURATION

To configure which program is opened when the edit command is run, set the $EDITOR variable in your shell like so:

export EDITOR=vim

(Homer will do this for you in ~/.zshenv)

AUTHOR

Tom Scott http://psychedeli.ca

SEE ALSO

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  2. November 2014
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