I moved forward on this myself, at least the command line option part. 
Please see pull request 
here: https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/pull/349.

On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 11:01:38 AM UTC-5, john lunzer wrote:
>
> In my explorations of Leo in trying to make Leo useful from the command 
> line I'm faced with the limitation that it seems that when opening a 
> non-.leo outline file from the command it's hard coded to open these files 
> as @edit nodes.
>
> I am suggesting/requesting that an option be added to Leo to dictate which 
> @<file> directive to use when opening these non-.leo files. It could be 
> either an option at the command line or added to the Leo settings. Or both, 
> and the command line option would override the Leo settings.
>
> I find it strange that an @edit node is the default. If a user is opening 
> a file in Leo I'm inclined to believe they wanted to use Leo's parsers. If 
> they wanted an @edit they could just open the file in vim or other line 
> editor. 
>

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