Comments on high level bits: Using Mac's TextEdit from the command line

It's just as well, the edit function doesn'...

2011-10-08T04:58:42.665+01:00

It's just as well, the edit function doesn't seem to work on Lion, for me. The alias Mark/Alexander posted works great :)

Thx Mark! Unbelivable but on my Mac it works also...

2009-09-04T09:50:08.540+01:00

Thx Mark!

Unbelivable but on my Mac it works also! :D However I think putting

alias edit='open -e'

into your ˜/.bash_profile is a better solution than the "function edit()" version.

On my Mac running Leopard open -e .bash_profile ...

2009-07-21T15:28:04.842+01:00

On my Mac running Leopard

open -e .bash_profile

opens .bash_profile using TextEdit.

That's of course if you have Textmate installe...

2009-06-29T09:04:36.126+01:00

That's of course if you have Textmate installed.

The benefit of the simple open command I discovered actually myself only a short while after I wrote this blog. Today I wold not like to miss it anymore ;-)

Alternative way to do this. add the following lin...

2009-06-29T03:22:01.938+01:00

Alternative way to do this.

add the following line to .bashrc:

alias edit='open -a textmate'