Ubuntu – How to get “Quickly” to use Git

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.

1. 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"
   

2. 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
   

3. 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.

Well, there's:

• git-all which gives you all the git packages [editor's note: do not attempt to install git-all in 16.04 or later, as it breaks with systemd] (or, if you want to get just the core git packages (cli only, as this skips the GUI tool) git-core. See also: Is there a GUI client for Git?
• subversion as for a GUI there are several projects which are designed as a front end to Subversion
• bazaar for a GUI there is bzr-explorer See also: What is Bazaar and how do I use it?
• mercurial and here is a list of Mercurial GUI tools