Has anybody used the "Edit" shell command in recent years, and/or knows what it does?

[Gulliver]

I currently use edit in my installation scripts to make modifications to the startup-sequence without user intervention.

This saves me, and the not so skillfull users a lot of grief.

It is indeed a very powerfull tool that often gets overlooked.

[Gulliver]

I only used the insert feature of the edit command with some search and line position placement. Nothing too complex, but never encountered the bugs that olsen claims it has.

Most likely I was just lucky.

[Gulliver]

@olsen

Thank you for the insight on the current buggy status of the AmigaOS 3.x implementation of Edit.
I will definately stay away from the read function.

Is it possible by any chance, that you build a fix for 3.1 and/or 3.9 users that just addresess the most dangerous bugs it has? You could probably release it as a spatch file without issues.

The BCPL heritage in AmigaOS seems to be just a troublemaker everywhere it went