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Ranger filemanager defaulting to nano

I set Ranger as a keybind with Awesome Window Manager (AWM). My environmental variables and shell (ZSH) for both visual and editor are set to VIM. When I use the keybind (super + f), Ranger defaults the editor to Nano. The man page for Ranger says that it defaults to VIM. I have no idea why it is doing this.

''' awful.key({ modkey }, "f", function () awful.util.spawn( "alacritty -e 'ranger'" ) end, 359 {description = "ranger" , group = "super"}), ''' ^^^This is the keybind.

Solution

  • Something probably set the EDITOR environment, somewhere. Follow these steps to fix it:

    1. Open /etc/passwd and make sure your shell is zsh
    2. Make sure you have export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim in ~/.zshrc
    3. Replace awful.util.spawn with awful.spawn.with_shell. This ensure it reads ~/.zshrc instead of launching range with an "empty" environment.