[Pythonmac-SIG] Unix-amateur question

[Charles Hartman]

(Sorry! How simple can they get? But I don't know of a better place  
to ask -- does anyone?)

How do I execute a Mac application from the Terminal command line?

Specifically, I'm trying to specify BBEdit in the EDITOR environment  
variable which is consulted by IPython. EDITOR= what? Not / 
Applications/BBEdit, or /Applications/BBEdit.app. Probably something  
that continues with /Contents/ . . . but then I get lost. And I don't  
quite know how to experiment because I'm not sure how to attempt to  
run it from the bash prompt . . .

Charles