How do I change EDITOR to be Pico in fish shell?

Question

I can’t get Mercurial (hg) to use pico as my EDITOR when I’m using fish shell.

I’ve tried using this and other variations, but nothing seems to help:

set -U EDITOR pico

hg commit will always open vi as the editor, and I do not want that.

UPDATE: Adding setenv EDITOR pico to the file ~/.config/fish/config.fish did what I wanted.

thanks! `setenv` worked for me too when trying to set `$BUNDLER_EDITOR` — Milovan Zogovic, Sep 28 '12 at 13:22
You should make your solution a proper answer and mark it as correct. — RazerM, Oct 25 '13 at 17:53
Note that `setenv` is just a compatibility alias for `set -gx`. In the long wrong you'll be better off avoiding the use of such shims and doing things "the fish way"; e.g., `set -gx EDITOR pico`. — Kurtis Rader, Jun 22 '16 at 14:32

score 31 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '14 at 02:29

31

This is the canonical way to do so

set -Ux EDITOR pico

answered Oct 12 '14 at 02:29

Peter R

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '18 at 03:05

11

This FAQ suggests adding set -gx EDITOR pico to ~/.config/fish/config.fish

answered Aug 09 '18 at 03:05

Marco Maldonado

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '15 at 16:59

7

You can also set a default editor just for git, which will ignore your default setup:

git config --global core.editor pico

answered Mar 13 '15 at 16:59

Berislav Lopac

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