If you want to set the editor only for Git, do either (you don’t need both):
- Set
core.editor
in your Git config: git config --global core.editor "vim"
OR
- Set the
GIT_EDITOR
environment variable: export GIT_EDITOR=vim
If you want to set the editor for Git and also other programs, set the standardized VISUAL
and EDITOR
environment variables*:
export VISUAL=vim
export EDITOR="$VISUAL"
NOTE: Setting both is not necessarily needed, but some programs may not use the more-correct VISUAL
. See VISUAL
vs. EDITOR
.
Some editors require a --wait
flag, or they will open a blank page. For example:
Sublime Text (if correctly set up; or use the full path to the executable in place of subl
):
export VISUAL="subl --wait"
VS Code (after adding the shell command):
export VISUAL="code --wait"
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