env-editor

Get metadata on the default editor or a specific editor

This module is used by open-editor.

Supported editors

• Sublime Text
• Atom
• Visual Studio Code
• WebStorm
• TextMate
• Vim
• NeoVim
• IntelliJ
• GNU nano
• GNU Emacs
• Android Studio
• Xcode

Install

$ npm install env-editor

Usage

import {defaultEditor, getEditor, allEditors} from 'env-editor';

defaultEditor();
/*
{
	id: 'atom',
	name: 'Atom',
	binary: 'atom',
	isTerminalEditor: false,
	paths: [
		'/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/atom.sh'
	],
	keywords: []
}
*/

getEditor('sublime');
/*
{
	id: 'sublime',
	name: 'Sublime Text',
	binary: 'subl',
	isTerminalEditor: false,
	paths: [
		'/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl',
		'/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'
	],
	keywords: []
}
*/

allEditors();
/*
[
	{
		id: 'atom',
		…
	},
	{
		id: 'sublime,
		…
	},
	…
]
*/

API

defaultEditor()

Returns metadata on the default editor.

The user is expected to have the $EDITOR environment variable set, and if not, a user-friendly error is thrown.

getEditor(editor)

Returns metadata on the specified editor.

editor

Type: string

This can be pretty flexible. It matches against all the data it has.

For example, to get Sublime Text, you could write either of the following: sublime, Sublime Text, subl.

allEditors()

Returns an array with metadata on all the editors.