What is the command to make Sublime Text my core editor?

Question

So I'm trying to set up GitHub for the first time ever and I want Sublime Text to be my core editor, how exactly do I do that? Sorry if this is a noob question, I am a noob :/

Answer 1

As this ranked highly when I was searching Google for Mac instructions, here is a combination of solutions I found.

First I set up a command line utility matching "subl" to Sublime Text from any terminal instance with this terminal command.

sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" /bin/subl

Then I do a similar git config command to the Windows solution above, but with a -w parameter at the end.

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

Answer 2

Enter this command in a prompt:

git config --global core.editor "C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text.exe"

It will then pop up when prompted for a commit message, or any other edition task, but if it was already open it won't work since it uses the same instance. Don't know how to workaround this.

Answer 3

Since build 3010 of Sublime Text 3, the subl.exe helper is included by default. So, combining CharlesB and Ted's answers gives you the best answer --

type in a prompt (cmd.exe or git_bash):

setx SUBLIME c:\path\to\sublime\install\dir git config --global core.editor "subl.exe -w"

Note the presence/absence of quotes. git config requires them, whereas setx does NOT. Also, while you're at it, try using a path\to\sublime that doesn't use spaces. That way you can use this with both MSysGit and Cygwin Git.

Answer 4

I had to manually edit the .gitconfig file in my user directory within Windows. The editor required single quotes around it, like so:

[core]
        editor = 'C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe'