Dear Nathan, > Easy solution, set $EDITOR to "gedit" ;)
Or Emacs. ;-) > The reason why kate "doesn't work" when opening files as specified by > `guix edit`, is that kate apparently can't handle the "$EDITOR +$N > $FILE" syntax, where $N is the number of lines to skip. It instead > opens two files, one of which will likely always be empty. This should > probably be reported as bug to kate unless that works upstream and > somehow guix messes up this feature. Instead ’kate’ use ’--line/-l’ and not ’+N’. You could wrap, something along these lines: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #!/bin/sh kate -l $(echo "$*" | tr "+" " ") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- then: export EDITOR=/path/to/kate-wrapper.sh guix edit emacs works (with ’/path/to/kate-wrapper.sh’ executable). Well, the wrapper could be better, obviously. :-) As Leo said, it does not seem a bug on the Guix side. Well, what could be done on the Guix side? What do you suggest? All the best, simon
