Ubuntu – Getting Quickly to use Gvim instead of Gedit

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How do I get Quickly to use Gvim (or just vim in a terminal) as its default text editor instead of Gedit?

If this can be done, I must be doing it wrong…

Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64.

Best Answer

I assume you mean you want to change the editor that Quickly loads when you ask it to.

Well I did some sleuthing... I'll show you what I did followed by the answer.

I fired off this command:
```
sudo find / -name "*quickly*" -exec grep gedit {} \;
```
That searches for all files with quickly in and then greps them for gedit. It was a long shot -- I should have refined the search so it was any paths with quickly in but it matched!
```
Binary file /usr/share/quickly/templates/ubuntu-application/internal/quicklyutils.pyc matches
    editor = "gedit"
```

I opened up /usr/share/quickly/templates/ubuntu-application/internal/quicklyutils.py (not the compiled version) in nano, searched for gedit and saw:

def get_quickly_editors():
    '''Return prefered editor for ubuntu-application template'''

    editor = "gedit"
    default_editor = os.environ.get("EDITOR")
    if not default_editor:
        default_editor = os.environ.get("SELECTED_EDITOR")
    if default_editor:
       editor = default_editor
    return editor

From that you can see it asks for the environment value EDITOR!

Just run your quickly commands as:
```
env EDITOR=gvim quickly edit
```
or export it to persist
```
export EDITOR=gvim
quickly edit
```
Add the export line to your ~/.bashrc line if you want it to persist between sessions.

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