From 881d4a03400421e6f11140012e9350f13c7de480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benedikt Heine <bebe@bebehei.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:30:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nvim: set EDITOR variable only if installed

Since git core.editor was set in the initial commit, I suspect I wasn't
aware of $EDITOR in the environment. So it's safe to delete
git/gitconfig's core.editor and take it from $EDITOR by default, which
actually checks if nvim is installed.

for git's diff.tool and merge.tool, I don't see a possibility to have a
conditional switch and fallback to vim. I don't expect to work on
another workstation without neovim.
---
 git/gitconfig | 1 -
 shell/vars.sh | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git/gitconfig b/git/gitconfig
index 0df469a..9f558c0 100644
--- a/git/gitconfig
+++ b/git/gitconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 	tool = nvim -d
 	conflictstyle = zdiff3
 [core]
-	editor = nvim
 	eol = native
 	pager = delta || (diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX)
 	quotepath = false
diff --git a/shell/vars.sh b/shell/vars.sh
index 9e82738..49180d9 100755
--- a/shell/vars.sh
+++ b/shell/vars.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-export EDITOR=nvim
-export VISUAL=nvim
+if [ -n "$(type nvim 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+  export EDITOR=nvim
+  export VISUAL=nvim
+else
+  export EDITOR=vim
+  export VISUAL=vim
+fi
 export BROWSER=firefox