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?
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.
~/.bashrc
file:export EDITOR="/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit"
echo "export EDITOR=\"/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit\"" >> ~/.bashrc
If you are using zsh, use ~/.zshrc
instead of ~/.bashrc
.