Git commit in terminal opens VIM but can t get back to terminal

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Trying to learn GitHub at the moment and doing this Git essentials tutorial over at nettuts  I m on the lesson about making commits   The teacher types git commit and it opens VIM as his editor  I d also like to know how to make it open up in Sublime Text 2 instead  anyways it opens in VIM and I add in 1 line saying this is my first commit and hit save   Next it then prompts me to save the output to the desktop  something I did not see in his screencast  Now I m still in VIM and not sure how to get back to  normal  terminal     I couldn t figure it out so I just exited the terminal and relaunched it  did git commit again and had some warning messages about duplicates  Not sure if I need to  E edit anyways or  A abort   git status    vim    message when I reopen terminal and do git commit again

User · Answer

This is in answer to your question        I d also like to know how to make it open up in Sublime Text 2 instead   For Windows   git config --global core editor   C  Program Files Sublime Text 2 sublime text exe     Check that the path for sublime text exe is correct and adjust if needed   For Mac Linux   git config --global core editor  subl -n -w    If you get an error message such as       error  There was a problem with the editor  subl -n -w     Create the alias for subl  sudo ln -s  Applications Sublime  Text app Contents SharedSupport bin subl  usr local bin subl   Again check that the path matches for your machine   For Sublime Text simply save cmd S and close the window cmd W to return to git

User · Answer

not really the answer to the VIM problem but you could use the command line to also enter the commit message   git commit -m  This is the first commit

User · Answer

Simply doing the vim  save and quit  command  wq should do the trick   In order to have Git open it in another editor  you need to change the Git core editor setting to a command which runs the editor you want   git config --global core editor  command to start sublime text 2

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You need to return to normal mode and save the commit message with either   lt Esc gt  wq   or   lt Esc gt  x   or   lt Esc gt ZZ   The Esc key returns you from insert mode to normal mode  The  wq   x or ZZ sequence writes the changes and exits the editor

User · Answer

To save your work and exit press Esc and then  wq  w for write and q for quit    Alternatively  you could both save and exit by pressing Esc and then  x  To set another editor run export EDITOR myFavoriteEdioron your terminal  where myFavoriteEdior can be vi  gedit  subl for sublime  etc

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