edit-cli

edit-cli

CLI program to open the default text editor of the user.

Installation

npm install edit-cli

Usage

edit <file>

Example:

edit CHANGELOG.md

Motivation

This CLI program is useful to enforce users to edit certain files in npm lifecycle hooks. For example, you may want to automatically edit the CHANGELOG.md file when a new version is created:

package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "version": "edit CHANGELOG.md"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "edit-cli": "..."
  }
}