From: Benno Evers <be...@bmevers.de>
* guix/scripts/edit.scm (guix-edit): Check if %editor exists.
---
These are my first lines of guile, so probably there is a much
better way to do this :D
The previous error message ("execlp: No such file or directory")
had me confused for a while, though.
guix/scripts/edit.scm | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm
index 30146af..9225629 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ Start $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n"))
(define (guix-edit . args)
(with-error-handling
+ (unless (search-path (parse-path (getenv "PATH")) (%editor))
+ (leave (_ "Couldn't find editor '~a'. Please check $EDITOR and $PATH.")
+ (%editor)))
(let* ((specs (parse-command-line args %options '(())
#:argument-handler cons))
(packages (map specification->package specs)))
--
2.5.0
