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kgavionics

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Registered: 2020-04-02

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[Solved]Can't change yay editor to vim?

Hello guys
I'm using Archlinux Kde with zsh.I use yay helper to install some AUR packages.Sometimes in need to edit the PKGBUILD files and i'm stuck with the yay default editor which i don't nothing how to use!
I want to use vim instead, but i can't get it to work!
i tried this two command to make vim my default editor :

echo "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim" >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export VISUAL=/usr/bin/vim" >> ~/.zshrc
i logged out and logged back in, but i still have the default yay editor.
Can someone tell me how to get rid of the yay default editor and replace it by vim please?

Thank you in advance

Last edited by kgavionics (2020-04-15 23:27:50)

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Re: [Solved]Can't change yay editor to vim?

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

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Trilby

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Re: [Solved]Can't change yay editor to vim?

There is no default editor.  If EDITOR or VISUAL are not set, yay prints an error message instructing you to print them.

Generally speaking, though, one would not use a full path for EDITOR, just `export EDITOR=vim`.  This shouldn't normally matter, though yay uses a go function that seems to look for a file with the value of EDITOR in PATH, which might fail for /usr/bin/vim as that string is not the name of a file.  But I zero experience in go (edit: here are the LookPath docs, apparently a full path is fine.)

But also note this from the yay author / maintainer:

Support
All support related to Yay should be requested via GitHub issues. Since Yay is not officially supported by Arch Linux, support should not be sought out on the forums, AUR comments or other official channels.

Right before you try to use yay, check `echo $EDITOR`.  Does that actually return /usr/bin/vim?

Last edited by Trilby (2020-04-14 23:50:54)

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kgavionics

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Registered: 2020-04-02

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Re: [Solved]Can't change yay editor to vim?

Thank you guys for your help.Problem solved by running this command :  yay --editmenu --nodiffmenu --save