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diff --git a/src/libcmd/editor-for.cc b/src/libcmd/editor-for.cc
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+#include "util.hh"
+#include "editor-for.hh"
+
+namespace nix {
+
+Strings editorFor(const Path & file, uint32_t line)
+{
+    auto editor = getEnv("EDITOR").value_or("cat");
+    auto args = tokenizeString<Strings>(editor);
+    if (line > 0 && (
+        editor.find("emacs") != std::string::npos ||
+        editor.find("nano") != std::string::npos ||
+        editor.find("vim") != std::string::npos ||
+        editor.find("kak") != std::string::npos))
+        args.push_back(fmt("+%d", line));
+    args.push_back(file);
+    return args;
+}
+
+}