Click Close and now it will be set as your default editor and all text files will open with it now.

Set default text editor mac terminal. Change the default text editor in Terminal. Git will use this as well. I just discovered that Control X E opens a text editor in the Terminal that allows me to edit the most recent command before executing it again I think it is actually a bash thing.

How to do this. First right-click on the document and a drop down menu will appear. For a fresh OS X installation TextEdit is this handler.

Most programs will check the EDITOR environment variable so you can set that to the path of TextEdit in your bashrc. However if you have installed a different program and subsequently set it to be the default handler for text files then using. This last option will work similar to the -e flag except that instead of specifically targeting TextEdit the system will open the default text handler on your system.

Right Click the text file you wish to open and choose Properties. However the editor that gets opened is always Emacs. First find the Multimedia tab in the Preferred Applications area and click on it with the mouse.

Add the following to your bashrc file. Set default text editor mac terminal. If you want to create a new file type the editor name followed by a space and the pathname of the file.

Just answered my own question with the help of the above comments. From there locate Video Player and click on the drop-down menu and use it to change the default video player. Ok lets start off on the right foot.