Add ability to use a specified config/theme

[tmforshaw]

I'd like to be able to use helix as root user but still keep my config and theme.

In vim you can pass a config file using the -u flag

sudo vim -u /home/user/.vimrc /path/to/file.txt

Maybe helix could accept a -c flag so that any config file can be used.

sudo hx -c /home/user/.config/helix/config.toml /path/to/file.txt

Thanks for reading :)

[sudormrfbin]

For your specific usecase the recommended way would be to use sudoedit after setting $EDITOR to hx.

[tmforshaw]

I saw that I could do that, but I don't have sudo installed on my system as I use doas.

If this is the solution then I will use it for now, but I still think this would be a nice feature in the future.

Thanks for your reply

[NNBnh]

Good new: doasedit exist!

[tmforshaw]

Ah wow, that is good news!

Thanks a lot

[the-mikedavis]

The new configuration in #2135 should help make this easier to implement: we can have a single switch for the config file and then the config file can point to other configuration files and directories.

[yuuyins]

i don't use helix as my primary editor i can't set it to $EDITOR. so having the option --config path/to/config is pretty useful

[sudormrfbin]

@yuuyins You could also set $SUDO_EDITOR instead of $EDITOR. This doesn't help if you want to use another editor and helix interchangeably with sudo though.

[yuuyins]

@sudormrfbin that worked thank you!