Thanks Sam!

That did it. Switching to export EDITOR="bbedit --wait --resume $@" has it 
working as I'd want.

Cheers,

--
Matthew

> On Nov 27, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Sam Hathaway <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this’ll be helpful for you, but I have a slightly different 
> EDITOR setup and can’t replicate your issue. I have EDITOR set to 
> /Users/sam/install/bin/bbedit-wait, and bbedit-wait contains:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> 
> 
> exec /usr/local/bin/bbedit --wait --resume "$@"
> I did this because some programs have issues with EDITOR values that contain 
> shell metacharacters, but maybe it’d solve your problem too?
> 
> Hope this helps.
> -sam
> 
> On 27 Nov 2017, at 12:12, Matthew Montgomery wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have BBEdit setup as my terminal editor via... export EDITOR="bbedit --wait 
> --resume"
> 
> While using git from the command line, this all works very well for editing 
> the COMMIT_EDITMSG file when BBEdit is already running. If I issue a "git 
> commit" when BBEdit is not running, it is launched as expected but it seems 
> that the bbedit command line tool exits after loading the specified file not 
> upon closing the file.
> 
> Is there some other way to make this work when launching BBEdit? Perhaps 
> chain a separate command that only uses the launch option?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Matthew
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