Custom External Editors

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• 20 Feb, '24
  Steve Mattan

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  Please consider adding BBEdit as an option for external editor.

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• 14 Apr, '22
  Adrian Merged

  It would be nice to be able to configure Notepad++ as an external editor. Often I want to open a file quickly in a simple editor. Now I have to select "Show in folder" first and then open the file with the Notepad++.

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• 25 Oct, '22
  Joey Kelroy System

  "Support VSCode Insiders" (suggested by Samuel on 2022-10-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 03 Nov, '22
  Nils de Bruin

  Support PyCharm and IntelliJ Fleet e.g.

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• 10 Nov, '22
  Axel Heider

  Please allow selecting custom editors. It's really a pain when having to deal with various file formats, where I just want to open a small editor. Having to install VSCode just for this is overkill - and the "open with default" can't be used as this opens image viewers, video players, browsers and all kind of stuff that is useful for viewing thing, but not for editing the files.

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• 10 Nov, '22
  Axel Heider

  Seem this is basically https://feedback.gitkraken.com/suggestions/194807/configure-a-custom-diffmergeeditor-tool-within-gitkraken again.

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• 10 Nov, '22
  Trevor System

  "Notepad++ as external editor" (suggested by Adrian on 2022-04-14), including upvotes (5) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 15 Dec, '22
  Shad Vick

  Upvote for notepad++ as external editor for quick updates.

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• 17 Jan, '23
  Peter Dankhaz

  Support PhpStorm please :)

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• 20 Mar, '23
  Anton Hibl

  support for this for emacs and/or vim would be nice as well.

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• 28 Mar, '23
  Robert Sipek

  PhpStorm would be nice

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• 04 Apr, '23
  Raphael Jordany

  Phpstorm pls

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• 16 May, '23
  Ales Gorkic

  Notepad++ would be nice.
  I simply do not understand where is the problem of why not allowing to run any external editor or default system editor. It is just a couple of lines of code.

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• 26 Jun, '23
  Joey Kelroy System

  "Add VSCode Insiders as an option for your default code editor" (suggested by Gami on 2023-06-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Aug, '23
  Axel Heider

  Please, could you implement this. The option should also be adding more than one custom editor. It's really a pain when there is no way to open a file with a non-standard extension (or no extension at all) in a simple editor. And for some files (e.g. svg, html) the default system extension is a viewer, which I do not want to change. But I still need to be able to edit them also.

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• 18 Aug, '23
  Paul Bezanson

  I installed VSCode and accepted the default installation locations. Still, GitKraken can't find it and there is no way for me to tell GitKraken where it is! At the very least, GitKraken should allow the user to enter the file system location of any supported external applications (like most other systems do).

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• 24 Aug, '23
  Rolf Sander

  Yes, please add the option to run any external editor for merging!
  
  As a start, a very simple solution would be to provide the filepaths of
  "A", "B" and "Output" during the merge and allow the user to modify
  those files externally.

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• 19 Oct, '23
  Anton

  Upvote webstorm/all IntelliJ editors

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• 25 Oct, '23
  Lindsay

  please add Notepad++

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• 03 Jan, '24
  Joey Kelroy System

  "Add open repo in default program (customizable)" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2023-12-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 21 Jan, '24
  jsnel

  Under the assumption you don't have 'regular' VS Code installed, a workaround to use Visual Studio Code Insiders is the following:
  1. Open a (Windows) Terminal
  2. Make a symlink from "Microsoft VS Code" to "Microsoft VS Code Insiders",
  2a. cd to your installation folder, e.g. `cd "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs"` (replace <user>)
  2b. From an administrative PS prompt > `New-Item -Path "Microsoft VS Code" -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target "Microsoft VS Code Insiders"`
  3. Make a symlink from "Code.exe" to "Code - Insiders.exe"
  3a. PS > `New-Item -Path "Code.exe" -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target "Code - Insiders.exe"`
  
  Gitkraken should now pick up VS Code Insiders as regular VS Code, and CTRL+SHIFT+E should work again!

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• 23 Jan, '24
  weilin

  thank you man, it works and no need step 3a

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• 03 Feb, '24
  Christian

  I use VScodium instead of VSCode
  https://vscodium.com/ cannot select it.

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• 14 Feb, '24
  Ingo

  Please make the editor configurable. I like to use Zed or Neovim(neovide), for small edits.

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• 22 Apr, '24
  Edoardo

  We use GitKraken every day! We'd love to set our own editor in the preferences. We use LunarVim. This is a really easy option to implement team! Maybe you can spare 3 or 4 days and get it done for us? Excellent work on GitKraken! :)

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• 14 May, '24
  Axel Heider

  It's really sad that v10.0.0 still does not support this simple config feature

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• 21 Jun, '24
  Jimmy Merged

  We can set the external editor in preferences, but it's only suppport one editor, like VSC
  Is possible to set multiple editor, like VS, rider etc, then we can open the repo in different editor?
  Also add a button on the button's bar, convience to open in editor, not only use shorcut to do

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• 22 Jun, '24
  Chris Bowie System

  "open repo in other editor" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-06-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 14 Oct, '24
  Marin Martinovic Merged

  I want to be ablo to choose IDE that opens by default from Git Kraken like Cursor Ai for example.

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• 18 Oct, '24
  Chris Bowie System

  "Allow choosing IDE" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-10-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 05 Nov, '24
  Raul

  allowing to configure default external editor is NEED, not NICE TO HAVE -- either detected from path, or allow to provide path to it

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• 12 Nov, '24
  Axe Heider

  Sadly, even after 2.5 years this feature is still missing.

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• 06 Dec, '24
  Sergei Nikandrov

  I wanted to set Cursor IDE as my default editor, so I installed the 'cursor' command. Then, I enabled the ‘Use custom terminal command’ checkbox in GitKraken’s settings and set it to "cursor .". Now, I can open the editor using the ‘Open in default external terminal’ command.

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• 17 Dec, '24
  Trevor Admin

  Thank you for your feedback! I'm happy to share that as of GitKraken Desktop 10.6, you can now configure custom external editors! Navigate to Preferences > External Tools to set up your editor.
  
  Check out the release notes here for more details:
  https://help.gitkraken.com/gitkraken-desktop/current/#version-10-6-0

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• 20 Dec, '24
  Rolf Sander

  Thanks, it's great to have this feature now!!!

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• 05 Feb, '25
  Christian Lauinger Merged

  VSCodium is basically VSCode but without telemetry: https://vscodium.com/
  I struggle with the support to get it running on MacOS as external editor for some days now.
  Xcode is very popular on MAC - it is also not supported and I can only add 1 external editor in GITkraken. Also Xcode does not work as external editor :(

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• 07 Feb, '25
  Vicente Roche System

  "Xcode and VSCodium support" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-02-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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