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Which text editor to use for git. For more information see Installing Atom in the. Integrated Development Environments IDEs like RStudio Eclipse or Apples XCode are also able to use Git if not natively with a pluginextension. To set EmEditor as the default text editor for Git open Git Bash and type.

GIFT format allows someone to use a text editor to write multiple-choice true-false short answer matching missing word and numerical questions in a simple format that can be imported. By default Git uses whatever youve set as your default text editor via one of the shell environment variables VISUAL or EDITOR or else falls back to the vi editor to create and edit your commit and tag messages. On Windows if you use Git Bash the default editor will be Vim.

To change your default text editor you can use git config if git is installed on your computer already. Git config --global coreeditor emacs.

What you need to do is set the value of coreeditor to the program file of your editor and add a flag -w at the end. This only applies until you close the terminal. This is how VS Code looks for a commit message.

The format has been developed within the Moodle Community but other software may support it to a greater or lesser degree. By default the GNU nano text editor is used which for me isnt a great experience and was starting to BUG me. It gives you a platform and power to do anything you can dream of.

Using Atom as your editor. Something that has been bugging me since moving from a GUI to command line git has been the default editor for writing commit messages. Use the Nano editor by default.