Change the default editor for files opened in the terminal e g set it to TextEdit Coda Textmate

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Is there a way to make files opened for editing in the terminal open in Textedit instead    For example  where a command might open a file for editing  like git commit   instead of opening that file in vim or emacs  it would open in Textedit  or perhaps another text editing application of your choosing  such as Coda or Sublime     And as a bonus question  is there any way to specifically configure git to automatically open the file created after running git commit in an editor from the applications directory

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For anyone coming here in 2018    go to iTerm -  Preferences -  Profiles -  Advanced -  Semantic History from the dropdown  choose Open with Editor and from the right dropdown choose your editor of choice

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For Sublime Text 3   defaults write com apple LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add   LSHandlerContentType public plain-text LSHandlerRoleAll com sublimetext 3      See Set TextMate as the default text editor on Mac OS X for details

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Most programs will check the  EDITOR environment variable  so you can set that to the path of TextEdit in your bashrc  Git will use this as well  How to do this   Add the following to your    bashrc file  export EDITOR  quot  Applications TextEdit app Contents MacOS TextEdit quot  or just type the following command into your Terminal  echo  quot export EDITOR   quot  Applications TextEdit app Contents MacOS TextEdit  quot  quot   gt  gt     bashrc  If you are using zsh  use    zshrc instead of    bashrc

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Use git config --global core editor mate -w or git config --global core editor open as  dmckee suggests in the comments   Reference  http   git-scm com docs git-config

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Set your editor to point to this program    Applications TextEdit app Contents MacOS TextEdit   With SVN  you should set SVN EDITOR environment variable to     export SVN EDITOR  Applications TextEdit app Contents MacOS TextEdit   And then  when you try committing something  TextEdit will launch

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If you want the editor to work with git operations  setting the  EDITOR environment variable may not be enough  at least not in the case of Sublime - e g  if you want to rebase  it will just say that the rebase was successful  but you won t have a chance to edit the file in any way  git will just close it straight away   git rebase -i HEAD  Successfully rebased and updated refs heads master    If you want Sublime to work correctly with git  you should configure it using   git config --global core editor  sublime -n -w    I came here looking for this and found the solution in this gist on github

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make Sublime Text 3 your default text editor   Restart required  defaults write com apple LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add  quot  LSHandlerContentType public plain-text LSHandlerRoleAll com sublimetext 3   quot   make sublime then your default git text editor git config --global core editor  quot subl -W quot

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For OS X and Sublime Text Make subl available  Put this in    bash profile    -s    bashrc     amp  amp  source    bashrc  Put this in    bashrc export EDITOR subl

[macos] Change the default editor for files opened in the terminal? (e.g. set it to TextEdit/Coda/Textmate)

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