How do I change the EDITOR session variable with home-manager?

[mariaa144]

I have home-manager setup as a flake with the following configuration.

  home.sessionVariables = {
    EDITOR = "vim";
    TEST = "SOMETHING_HERE";
  };

  programs.bash.enable = true;

This doesn't seem to set the EDITOR or TEST variable but I would think it should. Do I need to set the variable in the Nix configuration?

EDIT:
WSL doesn't start a bash login shell by default. Does anyone know how to set WSL to start a login bash session so home-manager will set the variables when the terminal starts?

I can start a bash login session manually using bash -l. When I do that my session variables are correct.

[573]

Can you try adding

programs.home-manager.enable = true;

?

[mariaa144]

Yes, I have that line there too. When I run home-manager switch I see all the symlinks in my home directory for the required bash changes. It seems they just don't take when I restart my terminal.

$ ls -alh ~/
total 76K
drwx------ 9 nixos users 4.0K Aug 28 11:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root  4.0K Aug 14 01:13 ..
-rw------- 1 nixos users 6.2K Aug 28 11:15 .bash_history
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixos users   76 Aug 28 00:54 .bash_profile -> /nix/store/kdi6j75fhppbrhidg6z4x3bpxx9dqgb0-home-manager-files/.bash_profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixos users   70 Aug 28 00:54 .bashrc -> /nix/store/kdi6j75fhppbrhidg6z4x3bpxx9dqgb0-home-manager-files/.bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 nixos users 4.0K Aug 16 01:05 .byobu
drwxr-xr-x 3 nixos users 4.0K Aug 28 00:54 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 6 nixos users 4.0K Aug 28 00:34 .config
drwx------ 2 nixos users 4.0K Aug 16 00:57 .emacs.d
-rw------- 1 nixos users   39 Aug 23 21:26 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x 2 nixos users 4.0K Aug 14 01:31 .nix-defexpr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixos users   44 Aug 14 01:31 .nix-profile -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/nixos/profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixos users   71 Aug 28 00:54 .profile -> /nix/store/kdi6j75fhppbrhidg6z4x3bpxx9dqgb0-home-manager-files/.profile
-rw------- 1 nixos users    0 Aug 28 00:35 .tig_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 nixos users 4.0K Aug 16 01:03 .vim
-rw------- 1 nixos users  15K Aug 28 11:16 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x 3 nixos users 4.0K Aug 23 21:30 Workspace                     

[mariaa144]

WSL doesn't start a bash login shell by default. I can start a bash login session manually using bash -l. When I do that my session variables are correct.