Terminal Customization
The following tutorial will setup an alias, ped, that you can type on the command line to open your editor of choice directly from the terminal.
Mac
- Open your terminal and type
ls -a
- You should see either a file named .bash_profile or .profile (likely in Yosemite).
- If there is no file named .bash_profile or .profile, type
touch .bash_profile
- Open this file in your editor:
open -a textwrangler .bash_profile
or open -a textwrangler .profile
- Add the following line to your .bash_profile:
alias ped='open -a textwrangler'
- Save the file, close the terminal, & reopen the terminal
- Try it out by typing
ped
VirtualBox (should already be setup)
- Open your terminal and type
ls -a
- Open .bashrc file in your editor:
gedit .bashrc &
- If it’s not already at the top of the file, add the following line to your .bashrc:
ped() { gedit "$@" & }
- Save the file, close the terminal, & reopen the terminal
- Try it out by typing
ped