opening sublime text from windows git bash

Question

How do I open Sublime text from Git Bash in Windows? I tried adding the alias at the ~/.bashrc file but nothing worked. I was looking for something very easy but I could not fin

Answer 1

I'm pretty new to this stuff and to git and sublime text. I'm taking the Udacity course on git right now, and was unable to get git bash to open sublime text.

I kept getting bash: subl: C:/Program command not found

or something like that

I found my problem ended up being I had my slashes going the incorrect way, and I found if you have spaces in your file path, you have to add a slash everytime you have a space and it will fix the problem.

I ended up typing

echo 'alias subl="C:/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 3/subl.exe"' >> ~/.bashrc

then subl

and sublime text was opened.

My original file path was-

C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3

so make sure you have your slashes going the correct way, and if you have spaces in your file path, to add the necessary slash after a word.

I'm on windows 10 using sublime text 3 and git bash

Hopefully this saves someone else a lot of time.