NAME

       e - invoke your editor, with optional file:lineno handling

SYNOPSIS

       e [<editor's options>] <file>[:line] [<file>...]
       <pipeline> | e -: [<editor's options>]
       <pipeline> | e -:: [<editor's options>]

DESCRIPTION

       Programs  that  mention  line  numbers  in  messages  have mostly standardized on "file:line: Message" or
       "file:line:col: Message".  Alas, this is not what editors support, which is almost always "+line" "file".

       e takes a list of file names, optionally followed with  :line,  then  possibly  with  :column  and/or  an
       additional  colon,  and gives to your editor.  The line numbers are passed as a separate argument "+line"
       before the file name which is what editors expect.

       Alternatively, you can provide file names on the standard input, and specify  -:  or  -::  as  the  first
       argument.  The former allows file names without line numbers, the latter silently ignores anything not in
       the expected format.

       Examples:

              git grep FIXME|e -:

              make 2>&1 >/dev/null|grep error:|e -::

       This is roughly a shorthand for "e `pipeline|cut -d: -f1-2`".

       e  is  also handy as a general-purpose smart alias for running the editor.  If yours has a long name like
       "jstar" or "emacs", you save four keystrokes on what for a typical Unix user is  the  most  often  issued
       command.

EDITOR SELECTION

       If  the environment variable $EDITOR is set, e will use that.  Otherwise, it calls sensible-editor, which
       asks what editor to use then saves your answer.  You can run select-editor to get asked again.

e                                                  2018-08-09                                               e(1)