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How to run gui editor? #127

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mxxcon opened this issue Oct 20, 2016 · 5 comments
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How to run gui editor? #127

mxxcon opened this issue Oct 20, 2016 · 5 comments

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@mxxcon
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mxxcon commented Oct 20, 2016

It appears that I can't use gui-based editors such as Atom or Sublime with sops.
My .bash_profile contains export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/atom
When I try to edit any sops-encrypted file I get something like:

mxx@MacBook-Pro:[~]: sops myfile.yaml
INFO: myfile.yaml doesn't exist, creating it.
INFO: generating and storing data encryption key
INFO: temp file created at /var/folders/b1/pwv5g6795fld3f0vt14kky_40000gp/T/tmpq6K2_D.yaml
PANIC: myfile.yaml has not been modified, exit without writing

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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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 -w command line flag that will wait for the main window to be closed before exiting. Create a /usr/local/bin/atom-blocking with

#!/bin/bash
atom -w

And set EDITOR to that.

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jvehent commented Oct 21, 2016

How about adding this information to the README ?

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jvehent commented Oct 25, 2016

Could you add a note for this to the readme?

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0xLeidenfrost commented Dec 15, 2020 •
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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:export EDITOR="atom -w"

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patricknelson commented Dec 19, 2020 •
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And for folks flexing Jetbrains IDEs, you can use the --wait flag. I'm on Windows, so to add a little diversity to the script examples:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PhpStorm 2019.3\bin\phpstorm64.exe" --wait %1

Drop that into a new batch file (e.g. phpstorm-blocking.bat) and just point the environment variable to that batch file. Of course, update the path as needed. Also note that, on Windows, you currently need to also do some interesting escaping to the path to this batch file if you really want it to work with sops. 😕

So in my case, the final value of EDITOR ends up becoming this for me (note that the value itself purposefully contains quotes and extra slashes, which can be confusing, but explained in issue #778 you can also use single quotes with forward slashes as well):

"C:\\Users\\patnelson\\Google Drive\\scripts\\phpstorm-blocking.bat"

However, after doing all this, it works like a charm in PhpStorm. 🎉

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