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@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ serves the layout: `/layout` lists the columns, their places and panes, and
 `/tag` and `/col/<serial>/tag` are the workspace and column tags, editable like a
 window's ([the tree](docs/fs.md#the-served-tree)).
 
+`pardes FILE` in a pane opens FILE in that session and returns at once. As
+`$EDITOR`, use `EDITOR='pardes --wait'` (`GIT_EDITOR` follows it): `--wait`
+returns when that pane is deleted, so fish's Ctrl-O, `git commit` and
+`crontab -e` read the file after you edit it
+([forwarding](docs/fs.md#filesystem)).
+
 plan9port's `9p write` always opens with OTRUNC, so `echo x | 9p write
 pardes/<id>/body` replaces the whole body where acme would append. To append,
 write through a mount with `>>` (`echo x >> $PARDES_MOUNT/<id>/body`).