Introduction
GitHub Desktop provides support for a number of editors, and also allows you to select a custom editor if your preferred editor is not supported. If you installed an editor while GitHub Desktop was open you will need to quit and reopen GitHub Desktop in order for the editor to be detected.
Supported editors
- MacVim
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio Codium
- Sublime Text
- BBEdit
- JetBrains WebStorm
- JetBrains PhpStorm
- JetBrains Rider
- JetBrains PyCharm
- JetBrains RubyMine
- JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
- JetBrains GoLand
- JetBrains Fleet
- JetBrains DataSpell
- Brackets
- To use Brackets with GitHub Desktop, you must install the Command Line shortcut. To install the shortcut, open Brackets, click File in the menu bar, then click Install Command Line Shortcut.
- Typora
- CodeRunner
- SlickEdit
- Xcode
- RStudio
- Nova
- Android Studio
- Aptana Studio
- Neovide
- Emacs
- Lite XL
- Pulsar
- Zed