$EDITOR is not used

[rosshadden]

Despite what it says in the docs, $EDITOR and $VISUAL do not seem to be used when they are set. This is not because GIT_/TIG_EDITOR are set and overriding them, as I do not have them set.

In my actual environment I have $EDITOR set and none of the others, but you can see this by invoking tig directly with no existing env vars:

# these do not work
EDITOR=nvim tig
VISUAL=nvim

# these do work
GIT_EDITOR=nvim tig
TIG_EDITOR=nvim tig

[koutcher]

They are but Git configuration variable core.editor has precedence over $EDITOR and $VISUAL. Ought to be mentioned in tig(1).

[rosshadden]

I don't think that's what is happening here. My core.editor in my git config is $EDITOR.

[koutcher]

Maybe it should, but Tig currently does not support variables in core.editor / $GIT_EDITOR (i.e. unlike Git, the value is not interpreted by the shell when it is used).