Git rebase cannot execute editor

Question

I am trying to deflate some git using rebase. When I ran this:

git rebase -i HEAD 

I get this error:

 /usr/lib/git-core/git-rebase: 1: eval: /usr/bin/mate: not found Could not execute editor 

I tried changing the variable of the git configuration editor, but I did not get the job. Right now my configuration file shows the following:

 [core] editor = /usr/bin/vim 

I am running Ubuntu 13.04

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Make sure GIT_EDITOR not installed in your environment. It takes precedence over core.editor.

Answer 2

Do something like that

 $ git config --global core.editor emacs 

where emacs paste your editor name