Open $VISUAL / $EDITOR on "v" keypress about bat

[JackDinn]

O cool i was just coming to say i was having this same problem with using bat. I get the same error no matter what i do Cannot edit standard input (press RETURN)

It says in SUMMARY OF LESS COMMANDS the MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS under help that the keyboard shortcut for "v"

v Edit the current file with $VISUAL or $EDITOR.

I have tried all sorts. My $EDITOR & $VISUAL are already set to micro, I also tried tinkering with /home/greg/.config/bat/config and adding export EDITOR="micro" , or just EDITOR=micro, i have tried a few variations but i can't figure it.

❱bat --diagnostic

Software version

bat 0.24.0 (fc95468)

Operating system

Linux 6.6.5-1-MANJARO

Command-line

bat --diagnostic 

Environment variables

SHELL=/bin/bash
PAGER=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
COLORTERM=truecolor
NO_COLOR=<not set>
MANPAGER=most

System Config file

Could not read contents of '/etc/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Config file

EDITOR=micro

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of '/home/greg/.cache/bat/metadata.yaml': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets

'/home/greg/.cache/bat' not found

Compile time information

• Profile: release
• Target triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
• Family: unix
• OS: linux
• Architecture: x86_64
• Pointer width: 64
• Endian: little
• CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
• Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

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> less --version 
less 643 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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