How to set atom editor to main editor

Question

i have been searching about this topic. But i can find it. I want to set atom to my $EDITOR on the terminal.I tried nikola new_post -e on the terminal. But i am keep getting this error ERROR: new_post: $EDITOR not set, cannot edit the post.

Solution

You can set the EDITOR variable as follows in Terminal

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/atom"

If you want that as a permanent setting consider adding it to your ~/.bashrc and reload the updated .bashrc via source ~/.bashrc.