The Edit With command is a special version of the Edit command that lets you specify whether you want to edit the selected file as text or as an image.

Normally the Edit command automatically determines whether a file is a text or an image file, and then opens it in the appropriate editor. However, the Edit With command is useful if Fetch determines the kind of the file incorrectly, or if the kind of file does not have an editor specified for it.

Select a file in a file list, hold down the Option key and then choose Edit With. Fetch will ask you whether you want to edit with the text editor or the image editor, and then download the file and open it in that editor.

If only one of the editor applications is available, Fetch will offer you a choice of editing the file with the available editor, or canceling.

You will also be asked to choose which editor to use for a file if Fetch could not determine what kind of file you asked it to edit, or if this kind of file does not have an editor specified for it. You can specify the editor for a kind of file with the Edit files like this with menu in the transfer options section of the info window. Only text or image files can be edited, although you can set any kind of file to open automatically after downloading.

See the Edit command help topic for more information.

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