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Set Visual Studio Code as default editor for kubectl

Set KUBE_EDITOR to Visual Studio Code, assumes 'code' is in PATH

export KUBE_EDITOR='code --wait'

Running k edit ... will open up the yaml using Visual Studio Code.

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On my mac Ventura in my ~/.bash_profile I have :
export KUBE_EDITOR='open -a "Visual Studio Code" --wait'

and it is opening the new VSCode window with command on terminal:
kubectl edit pod fooapp

The problem is once I am done editing the yml and save it and close the associated VSCode window the control is not returning to terminal.
For that I have to Quit VSCode completely.

This is very inconvenient as this is resulting in closing all my other open / work in progress files with VSCode .

Please suggest.

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