Programs that mention line numbers in messages have mostly standardized on "file:line: Message" or
"file:line:col: Message". Alas, this is not what editors support, which is almost always "+line" "file".
e takes a list of file names, optionally followed with :line, then possibly with :column and/or an
additional colon, and gives to your editor. The line numbers are passed as a separate argument "+line"
before the file name which is what editors expect.
Alternatively, you can provide file names on the standard input, and specify -: or -:: as the first
argument. The former allows file names without line numbers, the latter silently ignores anything not in
the expected format.
Examples:
git grep FIXME|e -:
make 2>&1 >/dev/null|grep error:|e -::
This is roughly a shorthand for "e `pipeline|cut -d: -f1-2`".
e is also handy as a general-purpose smart alias for running the editor. If yours has a long name like
"jstar" or "emacs", you save four keystrokes on what for a typical Unix user is the most often issued
command.