diff --git a/src/commands/solid-edit.ts b/src/commands/solid-edit.ts
index 114e78a..24c7936 100644
--- a/src/commands/solid-edit.ts
+++ b/src/commands/solid-edit.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import fs from 'fs';
 import { checkRemoteFileAccess, checkRemoteFileExists, getPodRoot } from "../utils/util";
 import type { Logger } from '../logger';
 import { ICommandOptions, setOptionDefaults } from './solid-command';
+import touch from "./solid-touch";
+const mime = require('mime-types');
 
 const md5 = require('md5');
 const child_process = require('child_process')
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ const child_process = require('child_process')
 interface ICommandOptionsEdit extends ICommandOptions {
   editor?: string,
   touch?: boolean,
+  contentType?: string,
 }
 
 export default async function edit(url: string, options?: ICommandOptionsEdit) { 
@@ -26,7 +29,8 @@ export default async function edit(url: string, options?: ICommandOptionsEdit) {
     if (!commandOptions.touch) {
       throw new Error('Could not edit non-existing resource. Please use the --touch flag to create a new resource on edit.')
     }
-    await editNewFile(url, commandOptions)
+    await touch(url, commandOptions);
+    await editRemoteFile(url, commandOptions)
   } else { 
     throw new Error(`No access rights for editing resource at ${url}.`)
   }
@@ -97,48 +101,6 @@ async function editRemoteFile(url: string, options: ICommandOptionsEdit) {
   }
 }
 
-async function editNewFile(url: string, options: ICommandOptionsEdit) { 
-  const systemTmpDir = os.tmpdir()
-  const solidTmpDir = path.join(systemTmpDir, '.solid/')
-  let filename = url.split('/').reverse()[0]
-  const getRandomizedPrefix = () => (Math.random() + 1).toString(36).substring(7);
-  filename = getRandomizedPrefix()+"-"+filename  
-
-  let tmpFilePath: string | undefined;
-  try {
-    let tmpFilePath = path.join(solidTmpDir, filename);
-    fs.writeFileSync(tmpFilePath, "")
-
-    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
-      var child = child_process.spawn(options.editor, [tmpFilePath], {
-        stdio: 'inherit'
-      });
-
-      child.on('exit', function (e: any, code: any) {
-        resolve();
-      });
-    });
-
-    // Wait for the user to finish editing the
-    (options.logger || console).log('Press any key to continue');
-    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
-      process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
-      process.stdin.resume();
-      process.stdin.on('data', () => resolve());
-    })
-
-    await copy(tmpFilePath, url, options)
-    if (options.verbose) (options.logger || console).log('Remote file updated!');
-  } catch (e) { 
-    throw e
-    // TODO::
-  } finally { 
-    if(tmpFilePath) fs.unlinkSync(tmpFilePath);
-    if (options.verbose) (options.logger || console).log(`Removing local file file ${tmpFilePath}!`);
-  }
-}
-
-
 async function fileMD5(path: string) {
     return new Promise( (resolve, reject) => {  
       fs.readFile(path, (err,buf) => {
diff --git a/src/commands/solid-touch.ts b/src/commands/solid-touch.ts
index 72f30bf..e18b2eb 100644
--- a/src/commands/solid-touch.ts
+++ b/src/commands/solid-touch.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ export default async function touch(url: string, options?: ICommandOptionsTouch)
         if (commandOptions.verbose) commandOptions.logger.log(`Remote file already exists`)
     }
     else {
-        let path = url.replace(/.*\//,'')
-        let mimetype = mime.lookup(path)
+        let path = url.replace(/.*\//,'') // todo: remove this? Might be leftover from shell experiment
 
         let contentType = options?.contentType
 
diff --git a/src/shell/commands/edit.ts b/src/shell/commands/edit.ts
index cab6c0d..224e150 100644
--- a/src/shell/commands/edit.ts
+++ b/src/shell/commands/edit.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export default class EditCommand extends SolidCommand {
       .argument('<url>', 'Resource URL')
       .option('-e, --editor <path_to_editor_executable>', 'Use custom editor')
       .option('-t, --touch', 'Create file if not exists') // Should this be default?
+      .option('-c, --content-type <string>', 'Content type of the created resource when using --touch')
       .option('-v, --verbose', 'Log all operations') // Should this be default?
       .action(async (url, options) => {
         let programOpts = addEnvOptions(program.opts() || {});