cedar

A tiny graphical text editor for use from the command line.

tiny-graphical-edtior

Installation

I recommend using the awesome utility Mint to install cedar.

mint install danielctull-apps/cedar

Usage

cedar can only be run from the command line and it takes just one argument, the file you wish to open.

cedar <file>

Using as git editor

cedar is designed to open really fast so is perfect for using as a git editor. If you wish to use cedar as your editor of choice when running those beloved commands git commit or git rebase -i, perform the following command and it will be set in your global git configuration file.

git config --global core.editor cedar

Thanks

There’s code in this little app that takes heavy inspiration from the following. Thank you so much. 🧡

Chris Eidhof for his boilerplate.swift gist which shows all the configuration needed to get a macOS app running from the command line.
Matt Gallagher for his blog post Minimalist Cocoa programming which was useful background information to Chris’ boilerplate gist.