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catalog.edit - Function



Package utility
Module catalog
Tool catalog


Edit


Synopsis
edit(file)


Description
Edit a file using an appropriate editor. For tables, the table browser is used. For ASCII and Glish files, the editor used is first that defined in the environment variable EDITOR. If that is not defined, then emacs is used. This can be overridden by putting the appropriate string in your .aipsrc file: 
catalog.edit.Glish:	xterm -e vi
catalog.edit.ascii:	emacs



Arguments

file in File to be edited
    Allowed: String


Returns
Bool


Example 
  dc.edit("3C273.g")



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