A tool to invoke an editor for Windows.
- e.exe can redirect the result of another command from the Command Prompt, and pass it to the editor via a temporary file.
- e.exe can pass the contents in the screen buffer of the Command Prompt to the editor via a temporary file.
- Of course, e.exe can open a file with the editor.
e.exe invokes the application associated with the .txt filetype. So, you have to associate your favorite editor to the .txt filetype. And you have to put e.exe in a location included in your Path environment variable.
Run e.exe from Command Prompt.
When running e.exe without any parameters, it saves the contents in the screen buffer to a temporary file, and opens the file with the editor.
C:\> e
(opens your editor with a temporary file containing the screen buffer)
And, when e.exe is invoked as the target of redirection, it reads the contents from pipe, saves it to a temporary file, and opens the file with the editor.
C:\> dir | e
(opens your editor with a temporary file contains the result of `dir` command)
These temporary files will be removed right after the editor is invoked (and e.exe will end immediatelty.)
If you want to delay removing the files, pass the --wait switch to e.exe.
If the switch is passed, e.exe will wait for the termination of the editor.
These temporary files are created in the current directory.
If you want to open an existing / new file, simply specify the file name as a parameter to e.exe.
You can add the --wait switch in this case, too.
Of course, in this case, the file will not be removed automatically.
C:\> e foo.txt
(opens your editor with `foo.txt`)
C:\> e --wait foo.txt
(opens your editor with `foo.txt', and waits until the file is closed)
If the output of e.exe is also redirected, the content of the edited file is passed to the pipe output.
In such a case, e.exe automatically waits for file closing just as if --wait was specified.
C:\> dir | e | findstr $
(opens your editor with a temporary file, waits until the file is closed, and passes the content of the file to the `findstr` command)
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