sensible-editor
sensible editing, paging, and web browsing
TLDR
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]
SYNOPSIS
sensible-editor [OPTIONS...] sensible-pager [OPTIONS...] sensible-browser url
DESCRIPTION
sensible-editor, sensible-pager and sensible-browser make sensible de‐ cisions on which editor, pager, and web browser to call, respectively. Programs in Debian can use these scripts as their default editor, pager, or web browser or emulate their behavior.
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)
SEE ALSO
Documentation of the EDITOR, VISUAL and PAGER variables in environ(7) and select-editor(1) for changing a user's default editor
