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keb 17d2705e12 feat: e opens a repo's SOPS or .env file, in nvim, sops edit or your editor (#1)
`e` on a file in a repo opens it; on a secret, it opens the file at that key's line.

- **SOPS files**: `sops edit` in the terminal, then back to lazysecrets with the keys reloaded. Exit 200 (nothing changed) shows "unchanged".
- **Other files inside nvim** (`$NVIM` set): lazysecrets asks that nvim, over `--remote-expr`, to open the file once lazysecrets' terminal closes, then quits. The file lands in the window you came from, not the closing float. Started from a shell in a terminal, it opens in the previous window straight away. No change to the nvim plugin is needed.
- **Otherwise**: `$VISUAL`/`$EDITOR` in the terminal (with `+N`, `file:N` or `-g file:N` for editors that take a line), else the system default app.

The repo provider now records each key's line (YAML node lines, env/ini line numbers) behind a new optional `provider.Files` interface. Other providers show "only SOPS and .env files in repos can be opened".

The nvim handoff was tested against a headless nvim 0.12: a floating terminal closed on exit the way snacks does, and a shell in a split. A file name with a space and a quote opened at the right line in both. Unit tests cover lines per format, the nvim, sops and default-app paths, and the editor line arguments.

Note: `e` is a new default key, so a config that already binds `e` to something else now gets the "bound to both" error, until one of them is rebound.

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# SOPS and .env files in git repos
lazysecrets shows git repositories under **Repos**: their
[SOPS](https://github.com/getsops/sops)-encrypted files (YAML, JSON,
`.env`, INI) and plain env files as vaults, and the keys in them
(`db.password`, `list[0]`) as secrets.
## Which repos
**Repos** lists every repo with secret files under the `roots` (`~/git`
by default; one or two levels down, `repo` or `org/repo`), any listed in
`paths`, and any you starred something in (the repo, a file or a key),
wherever it is. They're checked in the background.
Started inside a repo, that repo gets a row of its own at the top,
`Repo · <name>`, and lazysecrets opens on it, with the files under the
directory you started in first. In the flat list (`` ` ``) it sorts first, marked
`· here`.
A repo without secret files isn't listed. `--dir <path>` starts somewhere
else, for example in one project of a monorepo.
Repos load themselves as they're found, files and keys, since they're
local and cheap: [Go to](keys.md#go-to) searches them without loading
anything by hand.
## Which files
**Env files**: `.env`, `.env.local`, `prod.env` and the like, also when
git-ignored (as they usually are), in the folders git tracks files in;
not `.env.example`, `.sample`, `.template` and the like. They're read
directly; a file with SOPS metadata is always treated as SOPS, whatever
its name.
Folders of dependencies and caches are never looked in, tracked or not:
`node_modules`, `vendor`, `.venv`, `venv`, `__pycache__`, `.terraform`,
`.gradle`, `.yarn`, `.next` and the like.
**SOPS files**: those tracked by git, then the first of
1. `include`/`exclude` in the repo's own `.lazysecrets.yaml` (committed,
so everyone sees the same files),
2. `include`/`exclude` in the config,
3. where the repo's `.sops.yaml` `creation_rules` say SOPS files go,
4. the whole repo.
`include`/`exclude` apply to env files too.
```yaml
providers:
repos:
roots: [~/git] # folders of repos (the default; [] turns it off)
paths: [~/work/infra] # single repos elsewhere
include: ["secrets/**", "**/*.sops.yaml"] # globs from the repo root; ** for any depth
exclude: ["**/testdata/**"]
```
## Decrypting
Listing never decrypts: SOPS encrypts values only, so keys and metadata
(encryption, last modified) are read straight from the files. Revealing,
copying or `lazysecrets get` decrypts one value with your `sops` binary, so
whatever sops uses works (age keys, Azure Key Vault through az, AWS/GCP
KMS, PGP). When sops can't decrypt, its whole error message is shown.
## Opening files
`e` opens the selected file, or on a secret, its file at that key's line:
- **SOPS files** open with `sops edit`, which decrypts them into your
editor (`$SOPS_EDITOR` or `$EDITOR`) and encrypts them again when you
save. lazysecrets comes back after, with the file's keys reloaded.
- **Other files**, when lazysecrets runs inside nvim (its plugin, or
`:terminal`): lazysecrets quits and the file opens in that nvim, in the
window you came from.
- Otherwise in `$VISUAL` or `$EDITOR` in the terminal, coming back after;
without either, in the system's default app for the file.
Editors that take a line (vim, nvim, nano, emacs, micro, helix, VS Code,
Zed, Sublime and others) start on the key. With `sops edit` that works for
editors taking `+N` (vim, nvim, nano, emacs, micro and others), and needs
sops 3.8 or later.
## Links
Links name the repo by its git remote, so they open in a colleague's clone
wherever it is:
```
lazysecrets://repo/git.example.com%2Fteam%2Finfra/secrets%2Fapp.yaml/db.password
```
See [links](links.md).