Editor
Use your preferred editor with chezmoi edit
and chezmoi edit-config
By default, chezmoi will use your preferred editor as defined by the $VISUAL
or $EDITOR
environment variables, falling back to a default editor depending
on your operating system (vi
on UNIX-like operating systems, notepad.exe
on
Windows).
You can configure chezmoi to use your preferred editor by either setting the
$EDITOR
environment variable or setting the edit.command
variable in your
configuration file.
The editor command must only return when you have finished editing the files. chezmoi will emit a warning if your editor command returns too quickly.
In the specific case of using VSCode or
Codium as your editor, you must pass the --wait
flag, for example, in your shell config:
$ export EDITOR="code --wait"
Or in chezmoi's configuration file:
[edit]
command = "code"
args = ["--wait"]
Configure VIM to run chezmoi apply
whenever you save a dotfile
Put the following in your .vimrc
:
autocmd BufWritePost ~/.local/share/chezmoi/* ! chezmoi apply --source-path "%"
Use chezmoi with emacs
github.com/tuh8888/chezmoi.el
provides convenience functions for interacting with chezmoi from emacs, and is
available in MELPA.