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

[kolla]

Old thread revival

Yes, I have used Edit quite a bit, and never really had any issue with it crashing. It is truly a fun adventure to use it, sort of like a text adventure of the board game "Roborally", hehe.

[kolla]

One thing I recall using edit for fairly recently, was editing output from C:date command, to "translate" them to strings that c:date would understand as input. Output from c:date is always localized, but it _only_ accepts English input, so names of months have to be replaced. I had a timestamp file that was written to regularly, and on boot, the content would be parsed through edit and fed to c:date. Later I went to not using content, but only the timestamp of the file, using c:setdate to "touch" the file with a new timestamp every now and then. Ideally I wish C:setdate could "touch" the filesystem creation date too, which AmigaOS uses as start time for systems without RTC, and/or that C:date could set system time based on the timestamp of a file/filesystem. A small gem on aminet btw, is http://aminet.net/package/util/time/TimeKeeper  .

[kolla]

http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Manual:_AmigaDOS_Using_the_Editors#EDIT

[kolla]

In my view, sed and edit are different beasts - sed is a "stream editor", working on data streams, while edit is more like a normal editor, except you are pretty much editing blindly. The UNIX equivalent of Amiga "edit" would be "ed".

[kolla]

And I use vim for just about everything, every day