@edit on Windows

[greg_plowman]

@jebej

Not sure if this is still useful, but to open a file with the default program on Windows (without spawning cmd), the command is explorer filename.ext.

Yes this does work. Thanks.
It seems to allow spaces in filename, but not forward slashes. So maybe requires realpath:

cmd = `explorer $(realpath(path))`

Another suggestion was made over on GitHub `@edit` on Windows using default editor · Issue #20364 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub
Indeed the following appears to overcome both the spaces and forward slash issues:

cmd = `cmd /c start /b "" $path`