BBEdit as EDITOR

[Matthew Montgomery]

Hi all,

I have BBEdit setup as my terminal editor via... export EDITOR="bbedit --wait --resume"

While using git from the command line, this all works very well for editing the COMMIT_EDITMSG file when BBEdit is already running. If I issue a "git commit" when BBEdit is not running, it is launched as expected but it seems that the bbedit command line tool exits after loading the specified file not upon closing the file.

Is there some other way to make this work when launching BBEdit? Perhaps chain a separate command that only uses the launch option?

Thanks!

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Matthew

[Sam Hathaway]

Not sure if this’ll be helpful for you, but I have a slightly different EDITOR setup and can’t replicate your issue. I have EDITOR set to /Users/sam/install/bin/bbedit-wait, and bbedit-wait contains:

#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/local/bin/bbedit --wait --resume "$@"

I did this because some programs have issues with EDITOR values that contain shell metacharacters, but maybe it’d solve your problem too?

Hope this helps.
-sam

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[Matthew Montgomery]

Oh I take that back. My testing methodology was flawed. :-)

I am still seeing the command line tool exit without waiting when BBEdit hasn't already been launched. I will keep trying things and post again if I find a working solution.

Thanks.

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Matthew

> On Nov 27, 2017, at 12:59 PM, Matthew Montgomery <mat...@signed8bit.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Sam!
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> That did it. Switching to export EDITOR="bbedit --wait --resume $@" has it working as I'd want.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Matthew

[Matthew Montgomery]

Thanks Sam!

That did it. Switching to export EDITOR="bbedit --wait --resume $@" has it working as I'd want.

Cheers,

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Matthew

> On Nov 27, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Sam Hathaway <list....@munkynet.org> wrote:
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