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Use BBEdit as your terminal editor
Authored by: jzsimon on Mar 04, '03 12:49:09PM

You'll probably want to use the -w option (i.e. bbedit -w) if you use bbedit as a default editor. This causes bbedit to wait until you've finished editing the file is closed before returning to the program that called it.

To quote from the bbedit man page:
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-w

Wait until the file is closed in BBEdit. Normally, the bbedit tool exits immediately after the file arguments are opened in BBEdit. The -w option allows the bbedit tool to be used as an external editor for Unix tools that use the EDITOR global environment variable. To make this work using tcsh, add the following line to your .cshrc file:

setenv EDITOR "bbedit -w"



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