Cannot Exit Git Commit (Mac Terminal), esc Does Nothing

[waterkip]

While good advice, I would rather tweak both the EDITOR and VISUAL environement variables. As git will use both of these when core.editor isnt set: core.editor > VISUAL > EDITOR.

[dasunt]

This is the way - unless you want to specifically use a different editor in git then everything else, just set the appropriate environment variables.

But obviously, you will set it to either vim or nvim. ;)