I used this answer to change the editor used with quickly and it worked, however now,when I type quickly edit the command line stays on the open and does not allow me to enter other commands as long as Sublime Text 2 is open. I realise this is a daft question, but I can't seem to find a way to get around it.
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boywithaxe
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Set the EDITOR environment variable to sublime and then quickly edit will use it:
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/subl
Just add the above line to your ~/.bashrc file
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It does this because gedit is programmed to do that when you run it from the command line. You can make quickly do that with other editors by using quickly edit &.
Edit: I wrote a Perl script that will run the editor as a as a child of init so when you close the terminal the editor will remain open: script
You can set the following vaiables at the top of the script:
- command: the command to be run
- stdout: The standard output to be passed to the command (must be set or it will still output to terminal)
- stderr: The standard output to be passed to the command (must be set or it will still output to terminal)
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Your script link is dead due to the loss of ubuntuone.com I realize this is an old answer but is there any chance of making this answer valid again? – Elder Geek Jan 09 '17 at 20:44
~/.profile, since adding it to~/.bashrcwon't set it for login shells. – Eliah Kagan Jul 03 '12 at 09:31~/.bash_loginif it exists. – Dmitriy Budnik Nov 09 '12 at 07:45