opening new config file with pdm config -e opens in read-only

[Zyantist]

Hello,

I found this interesting library yesterday and am stuck at the configuration. I want to use it in a work environment where we have a PYPI-like server in our local network and with pip, I use trusted-host, extra-index-urls with personal access tokens.

That is why I was looking for a config file where I could add the (adapted) information for pdm somewhere in my HOME directory where different containers with access to my HOME can read it.

After I read some bits in the docs and finally used pdm config -h to find the pdm config -e command, I hoped to finally be able to write my configuration items into a file in my HOME. I tried with nano and vim, but in both I enter a line, try to save and it tells me that it is opened in read-only mode. The file and folder (~/.config/pdm/) did not exist before-hand and still do not.
I would expect the command to take care of creating folder and file and open it a writable mode since the help says

-e, --edit Edit the configuration file in the default editor(defined by EDITOR env var)

I know I could of course create the folder and file manually and fill them but I was wondering if this is a bug or if I missed some additional options?

Working inside a virtual environment (venv) with Python3.11 in a toolbox container with Fedora 41 workstation and gnome 47. The host system has the same OS/gnome.

[frostming]

This would be easy to fix, would you like to have a try?

[Zyantist]

I will give it a try. I pulled and think I found the relevant parts in code. Might take a few days, though. Just short on time at the moment