How to Change the Default Editor for Git [duplicate]

Answer 1

Just answered my own question with the help of the above comments... to switch to TextWrangler as the default for Git, you must open TextWrangler, click on TextWrangler in the tool bar and select "install command line tools" from the drop down. Then go into command line and type:

git config --global core.editor "edit -w"

Edit is the command that is understood in the command line which means to open a textWrangler file.

Answer 2

Follow-up to @thornomad

Command for changing editor in Git is (one of possibilities)

git config --global core.editor "mate -w", there string inside quotes marks is full command-line for invoking editor from terminal

Answer 3

Are you on a Mac ? If you run TextWrangler from the command line (Terminal.app) does TextWrangler open?

My guess is that git is expecting you to pass it the name of an executable that is in your PATH ... I would also guess that TextWrangler is not (this is just a guess, no experience with it).

Try changing core.editor to vim and see if you still get the error.

Also - check out this thread (it may help).