edit

Edit action can be used to view any file on default mailcap explorer

$ edit [filename]

$ run-mailcap --action=edit [filename]

edit [file]
(non-standard; command not found on standard Linux)

The edit command is not a standard utility in Linux or most Unix-like systems. Attempting to run it results in a command not found error on typical distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Debian.

Common text editors include the line-oriented ed, modal editor vi or vim, beginner-friendly nano, and GUI options like gedit. In rare cases, such as certain BSD variants, older Unix systems (e.g., AIX, HP-UX), or custom setups, edit may exist as a wrapper or symlink to vi. However, it lacks a man page or official documentation in standard Linux.

For editing files, invoke alternatives directly: nano file.txt, vim file.txt, or set the EDITOR environment variable (e.g., export EDITOR=nano) for tools expecting an editor.

Absent from standard Linux PATH; use alternatives like vi or nano. No options or consistent behavior across systems.

Recommended: nano (simple), vim (powerful), micro (modern terminal editor).

Set EDITOR or VISUAL (e.g., export VISUAL=vim) for seamless integration in tools like crontab -e or git commit.

No official history in Linux development. Appears in some proprietary Unix systems as an alias for vi since 1970s-1980s, but omitted from POSIX and GNU standards.

ed(1), vi(1), vim(1), nano(1), emacs(1)