How to Use Scite as default editor in Git
Question
I'm using git config --global core.editor "mate -w"
when using textmate. How do I set it to scite? I am not sure what -w
or -f
means. Thanks!
Solution
-w
is a command line option, see mate --help
what it means. You can probably just use git config --global core.editor "scite"
, check scite --help
for any options.
OTHER TIPS
I just set the editor like the following and it worked fine:
git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Scintilla Text Editor/scite.exe'"
On another machine I had to change the path:
$ git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files (x86)/SciTE/scite.exe'"
Textmate has a command line helper program called mate
which is installed in your path. This line in config says run that program (which runs TextMate), and the -w
flag means wait for the file to be closed before carrying on.
For Scite - it may have a command line tool and a flag that lets it behave the same way.