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.

score 33 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '14 at 02:29

33

This is the canonical way to do so

set -Ux EDITOR pico

answered Oct 12 '14 at 02:29

Peter R

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '18 at 03:05

13

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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