Fish edit

A simple edit command for fish

Installing

Copy edit.fish in ~/.config/fish/functions/

You can also use curl

curl -o $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fish/functions/edit.fish \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kowalski7cc/fish-edit/master/edit.fish

or wget

wget -O $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fish/functions/edit.fish \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kowalski7cc/fish-edit/master/edit.fish

It will be automatically loaded when fish is launched. You can also load it manually without restarting fish with

source $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fish/functions/edit.fish

How it works

It first will check $VISUAL if you are using X or Wayland and $EDITOR if visual unset or no X/Wayland session found. If both are unset, it will check for the presence of the editor command, which is set by update-alternatives. If still no luck, it will check sequentially for one of this editors:

• nano
• pico
• vim
• vi
• ed