How to create an alias for TextEdit

Hi,

I would like to create an alias for TextEdit, so that in the command prompt of 'Terminal', I can just do , say 'te', and it will start TextEdit for me.

I have tried following the instructions here:
macosxhints.com - Terminal 101 - Handy aliases

But when I type 'alias' at the prompt, I get nothing, blank output.

Can you please tell me what is missing?

Thank you.

Try:


Basically, that establishes an alias called 'te', which will launch textedit.app, assuming it's located in /applications (the default directory).

you might want to pipe that to the tail of your .profile such like