I this article you will learn that ho you can use your desired editor while commiting and editing commit messages

To edit the Git commit in the editor of your choice, first, open the Git local repository. Select the editor of your choice for editing the commit message using “git config –global core.editor < “Editor name”>” command. After that, edit the Git commit using the “git commit –amend” command in your preferred editor. This tutorial has elaborated on how to use the Git editor of choice for editing commit messages.

You can configure Git to use a specific text editor for editing commit messages by setting the core.editor configuration variable. The value of this variable should be the command that starts your preferred text editor.

Here are the steps to set your preferred text editor for Git:

1. Open a terminal or command prompt.

2. Use the following command to set the core.editor variable to your preferred text editor:

git config --global core.editor 

Replace with the command that starts your preferred text editor. For example, if you want to use the nano editor, you would use the command:

git config --global core.editor nano

If you want to use Atom editor you would use the command

git config --global core.editor atom

3. Verify that the configuration change was successful by running the following command:

git config --global --get core.editor

This command should return the command you set in step 2.

Once you have set the core.editor variable, Git will use your preferred text editor for editing commit messages.

Please note that, if you want to use GUI-based text editor like atom, sublime, etc. you have to set the path to the command-line launcher of the editor instead of the editor itself.

If you have any troubles with the configuration or if you want to change the editor in future, you can always change it by running the command again with the new editor command.