Can't edit secret: failed to run editor..

[d3vr]

When I try to edit a secret I get this error, each time with a different file name:

Error: failed to invoke editor: failed to run editor with /dev/shm/gopass-edit179424118/secret file

I'm running Arch Linux/Manjaro with the latest version: gopass 1.6.1 (c4e1803 built from gopass-git in the AUR) and go 1.9.2 linux amd64

I tried looking for similar issues here and googling the error, neither of which helped.

Thanks

[d3vr]

I found the issue: the $EDITOR variable was not set which was causing the problem.

It does say in the docs however, that if the $EDITOR variable is not set, vim will be used by default. That didn't work for me.

I did some investigating:
action/edit_linux.go is returning editor in case the $EDITOR variable is not set, and after some searching I found that @dominikschulz said:

On Linux the user should always get his favourite editor because we check $EDITOR and fall back to editor which should be as symlink to the chosen/default editor.

This is not mentioned in the docs, wouldn't it be more practical/better if vim was actually used by default?

[dominikschulz]

Thank you very much for reporting this. Should be fixed by #479. Please report back if that doesn't help.