diff --git a/lib/shopify_api/cli.rb b/lib/shopify_api/cli.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/shopify_api/cli.rb
+++ b/lib/shopify_api/cli.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ module ShopifyAPI
       file = config_file(connection)
       if File.exist?(file)
         if ENV['EDITOR'].present?
-          `#{ENV['EDITOR']} #{file}`
+          system(ENV['EDITOR'], file)
         else
           puts "Please set an editor in the EDITOR environment variable"
         end
Allow command line editor to output to terminal on edit task.

Executing a command with backticks redirects the output to return
it as a string, but this prevents editors like vim from showing the
file being edited.