Answer by JimmyLandStudios for Opening default text editor in Bash?
note: xdg-open file.xml will open in a Web-Browser, most likely.So, try; # select your default sensible-editor from all installed editors, or not. select-editor # Open Default Text Editor...
View ArticleAnswer by Nicholas Wilson for Opening default text editor in Bash?
Ignacio's right (though arguably, the fallback should be ed, which POSIX requires to be present, although it's essentially only useful to old-timers).If you're thinking about graphical editors,...
View ArticleAnswer by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams for Opening default text editor in Bash?
The user's chosen editor should be in $EDITOR, but you must still choose a sane default."${EDITOR:-vi}" file.txt
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I was writing a shell script and ran into a problem: Is there a way to open a file using the user's specified text editor?
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