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How to run gui editor? #127
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sops will wait for the editor to exit. It looks like atom spawns a child process and then exits the main process. This will not work with sops. Atom has a #!/bin/bash
atom -w And set EDITOR to that. |
How about adding this information to the README ? |
Could you add a note for this to the readme? On Oct 20, 2016 3:28 PM, "Adrian Utrilla" notifications@github.com wrote:
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On slightly more modern versions of atom, the same can be achieved without creating any scripts, but rather just by exporting editor as follows: |
And for folks flexing Jetbrains IDEs, you can use the
Drop that into a new batch file (e.g. So in my case, the final value of
However, after doing all this, it works like a charm in PhpStorm. 🎉 |
It appears that I can't use gui-based editors such as Atom or Sublime with sops.
My
.bash_profile
containsexport EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/atom
When I try to edit any sops-encrypted file I get something like:
A few sec later Atom opens up with that tmpq6K2_D.yaml file.
It is my understanding that this happens because gui editors open in a separate process outside of my terminal.
Regular terminal editors such vi/nano/mcedit work as expected.
How can I use gui editors with sops?
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