ARB_TEXTEDIT is not defined

[guest]

Hi,

I have just installed Arb 7.0.1 on a MacPro? running OS 12.7.1 (the highest it will go). I am able to open old Arb files and some tested functions work, but can't enter text in e.g. Tree Admin or Search and Query, and attempting to freezes the whole program - have to force quit XQuartz and Terminal. I think this error message from the end of a parsimony run points to the issue:

$ARB_TEXTEDIT is not defined - looking for known editors .. Using 'xed' as text editor. [ editor command: xed "outfile" & ] xcode-select: error: tool 'xed' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools?' is a command line tools instance

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks,

Barbara MacGregor?

[westram]

these are two separate issues:

• your freezing problem might be the same as handled in #844.
  In the comments you'll find a workaround - we don't have a real fix.
• if the environmentvariable ARB_TEXTEDIT is not defined, arb tries to guess what could work as text-editor on your system. Apparently, this guess fails. Please refer to the documentation about ​ARB environment variables and/or the ​section about ARB_TEXTEDIT in the README of homebrew-arb.