On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:28:34 +0200
Alexis Praga wrote:
> I'm using the fish shell and am having trouble to tell darcs to use
> neovim.
>
> Setting EDITOR, VISUAL and even DARCSEDITOR to ``
> does not seem to do anything. `darcs record` seems to try to start
> nano (and fails to find it):
> > /bin/sh: nano: not found
> then continues to starts vi.
You probably need to set your environment variable
and export it. If you don't export a variable the
variable is not available to spawned processes.
I am unfamiliar with fish, but this is what the borne
shell needs:
DARCS_EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nvim
export DARCS_EDITOR
or just
export DARCS_EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nvim
This from "darcs help environment" (which is why you get nano):
DARCS_EDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR:
To edit a patch description of email comment, Darcs will invoke an
external editor. Your preferred editor can be set as any of the
environment variables $DARCS_EDITOR, $VISUAL or $EDITOR.
If none of these are set, nano is used. If nano crashes or is not
found in your PATH, vi, emacs, emacs -nw and (on Windows) edit are
each tried in turn.
Karl
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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