3.1.9.10 Editing Files

F4, ESC 4

Call the default editor with the current file name as an argument
(‘EDIT’).

^X e

Call the default editor with the selected entry names as arguments
(‘MULTIPLE-EDIT’).

^X ^F

Create a new file by calling the default editor with the user supplied
file name as an argument (‘FILE-CREATE’).

^X 4 a

Call the default editor in order to edit the ‘ChangeLog’ file
(‘CHANGE-LOG’).

The default editor can be specified using the EDITOR or GNUIT_EDITOR environment variables. See section Environment Variables, for more information.

$GNUIT_EDITOR used to be called $GIT_EDITOR. The old name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.

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