Manual External Editor Configuration

Houdini Only

Go to Edit > Configure External Editor and follow the prompts.

System Wide

Mac & Linux

Edit ~/.bash_profile:

export VISUAL="/path/to/editor"

Windows 7+

setx VISUAL C:\path\to\editor

Note: Make sure to enable Use System Setting in Configure External Editor if using system default configuration.

Examples

In Edit > Configure External Editor choose Other or Edit Current Setting. Then using the following examples to setup your editor.

Note: If manually editing houdini.env make sure to quote the value.

VISUAL = ""/Applications/Sublime Text 3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" -w"

Sublime

subl -w
"/Applications/Sublime Text 3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" -w
"/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" -w
"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" -w
"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe" -w

Vim

gvim -fn
mvim -fn
"/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim" -gfn
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\gvim.exe" -fn

TextWrangler

"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/edit" -w

BBEdit

"/Applications/BBEdit.app/Contents/Helpers/bbedit_tool" -w

TextMate

"/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate" -w

Notepad++

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -nosession -notabbar

Kate

kate -u

KWrite

kwrite

Atom

"/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom" -fw

Emacs

emacs
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs"

UltraEdit

"C:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\Uedit32.exe"

PyCharm

"/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm"

Xcode

"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode"