[Solved] Yaourt unable to edit PKGBUILDs

elskankinloco · 2014-10-30 20:40:30

Whenever I try to edit a PKGBUILD while installing a package in yaourt, I get a blank terminal with a blinking cursor.
I have made sure that I have it set to edit in nano and even tried to use vim and gedit but no luck. It doesn't matter what package it is, It does the same thing.

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Thanks for your help!

Last edited by elskankinloco (2014-10-30 22:14:12)

jasonwryan · 2014-10-30 20:41:26

Please paste your yaourt conf.

Moving to AUR Issues...

WorMzy · 2014-10-30 21:07:15

Yaourt isn't a text editor..

elskankinloco · 2014-10-30 21:10:29

#   yaourtrc  - Configuration for yaourt
#   See yaourtrc(5) for more information

# General
EDITOR="$EDITOR"

# AUR
AURCOMMENT=0

# Build
#EXPORT=0           # Export to PKGDEST
#PKGDEST=""

# Prompt
UP_NOCONFIRM=0     # No prompt while build upgrades (including -Sbu)
BUILD_NOCONFIRM=0  # Only prompt for editing files
PU_NOCONFIRM=0     # Add --noconfirm to $PACMAN -U
#EDITFILES=1
NOENTER=1

I didn't think of editing this file.
I changed the Editor to be "nano" but I still had the problem. So then I tried it to be "vim" and it worked.
Am I missing something for nano to work?
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.

karol · 2014-10-30 21:10:46

WorMzy wrote:

Yaourt isn't a text editor..

yaourt asks you if you want to view and edit PKGBUILDs before using makepkg on them.

karol · 2014-10-30 21:11:22

elskankinloco wrote:

Am I missing something for nano to work?

Do you have nano installed?

elskankinloco · 2014-10-30 21:14:02

karol wrote:

elskankinloco wrote:
Am I missing something for nano to work?
Do you have nano installed?

Yup, I have nano installed. I use it to edit files in terminal and it works fine.

jasonwryan · 2014-10-30 21:16:53

elskankinloco wrote:

I changed the Editor to be "nano" but I still had the problem. So then I tried it to be "vim" and it worked.

And so, it begins, grasshopper...

karol · 2014-10-30 21:17:38

I have

EDITOR=nano

in /etc/yaourtrc and it works.

Jristz · 2014-10-30 21:40:38

karol wrote:

elskankinloco wrote:
Am I missing something for nano to work?
Do you have nano installed?

nano sometimes fail trying opening PKGBUILD even outside yaourt or another build environment.
I recommend zile if you want something emacs-alike and as far here zile never fail.

elskankinloco · 2014-10-30 22:11:28

Jristz wrote:

karol wrote:
elskankinloco wrote:
Am I missing something for nano to work?
Do you have nano installed?
nano sometimes fail trying opening PKGBUILD even outside yaourt or another build environment.
I recommend zile if you want something emacs-alike and as far here zile never fail.

Thanks Jristz, I installed zile and it works great!

elskankinloco · 2014-10-30 22:13:41

Thanks everyone for your help. I am able to edit PKGBUILDs now.

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