I wrote something that can handle directory changing and sudoedit: https://github.com/EvanTeit...

I'm working on a version that can handle a number of filetypes: https://github.com/EvanTeit...

If you use zsh, this is easily done with an alias:

% alias -s sh=vim

which would set any file with the extension *.sh to be opened with the command vim (according to your $PATH). Thus I can now type:

% foo.sh

which essentially runs the following command:

% vim foo.sh

and opens my file!

I think xdg-open is what you want to open using the freedesktop associated file.

You might want to replace $1 with "$@", then it'll work with any number of files

You may want to enclose $1 in quotation marks or you'll run into trouble with file names containing spaces.

OMG. Do you realise that you have created a gigantic security hole in your system by doing this? If I was the auditor of your system you would be marked down severely for this.

Your solution is more flexible (and I'm going to adopt it for some things), but it's worth mentioning that many of these tools use EDITOR as a fallback. svn has SVN_EDITOR, git has GIT_EDITOR, etc.

After going through some other blog entries, I see you have a nice little history of offering badly designed "solutions". If you keep your bad hacks to yourself I won't say a damn thing but once you start displaying them for others as "solutions", don't get defensive when other criticize them.

Why use bash? It uses no bash specific functionality and not everyone has (or wants) bash on their system.

This script can be simplified:

You can use the following code to do so:

*_EDITMSG|*MERGE_MSG|*_TAGMSG)
/usr/local/bin/vim $1 ;;

Unless you intend to use ed or ex, set the VISUAL variable, not EDITOR!