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Open the default editor.

Open a file in the default editor
sensible-editor {{path/to/file}}
Open a file in the default editor, with the cursor at the end of the file
sensible-editor + {{path/to/file}}
Open a file in the default editor, with the cursor at the beginning of line 10
sensible-editor +10 {{path/to/file}}
Open 3 files in vertically split editor windows at the same time
sensible-editor -O3 {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 path/to/file3}}

SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)                     General Commands Manual                    SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)



NAME
       sensible-editor - sensible editing

SYNOPSIS
       sensible-editor [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
       sensible-editor makes sensible decisions on which editor to call.  Programs in Debian can use
       this script as their default editor.  sensible-editor try to do in the following order:

       1      if VISUAL environment variable exists, execute VISUAL [OPTIONS]

       2      if EDITOR environment variable exists, execute EDITOR  [OPTIONS]

       3      source the contents of file ~/.selected_editor  and,  if  SELECTED_EDITOR  environment
              variable exists execute SELECTED_EDITOR  [OPTIONS]

       4      run editor [OPTIONS] command

       5      finally run nano-tiny [OPTIONS] command

SEE ALSO
       environ(7) for documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL variables
       select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor.
       editor(1) for default system wide editor.

BUGS
       This  command  is  protected  against trivial fork bomb, when user set EDITOR=sensible-editor
       wider loops are still possible.

STANDARD
       Documentation of behavior of sensible-utils under a debian system is available under  section
       11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under /usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to
       install debian-policy)



Debian                                       14 Nov 2018                          SENSIBLE-EDITOR(1)