%edit magic command not working in jupyter notebook

Question

I can't work out how to get the %edit command working in Jupyter Notebook.

I type

%edit

and it returns with

IPython will make a temporary file named: /var/folders/dk/.../ipython_edit_JbS9ZC.py

My %EDITOR environment variable is

'EDITOR': '/usr/local/bin/subl -w'

I must be doing something wrong.

Answer 1

This feature issue appears to be well-known : https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/5879

A possible solution might be to use : Edit IPython cell in an external editor

Or you can embed the notebook in emacs (I don't use emacs) : https://github.com/tkf/emacs-ipython-notebook