Can you interactively edit an existing manifest?

[Marco Eckstein (marco-eckstein)]

With the New command, you can edit the manifest interactively, which helps with adhering to the schema. But I have yet to find a way to edit an existing manifest interactively. Is there one?

[Muhammad Danish (mdanish-kh)]

You can use the wingetcreate update command with the --interactive switch that lets you edit an existing manifest.

Alternatively, you can clone https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs locally, install the Red Hat YAML extension in VSCode and edit an existing manifest. If the manifest contains a schema header, the extension will help in offering intellisense that conforms to the schema.

Finally, after making any change to an existing manifest, you can always use winget validate -m <path_to_manifest> to see if your changes conform to the schema

[Marco Eckstein (marco-eckstein)]

Thanks -I see. --interactive is missing from the docs, which even state that the update command is non-interactive. It is included in --help though.

Which header is recommended when manually editing a manifest that contains a header like this?

# Created using wingetcreate 1.5.7.0
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.installer.1.5.0.schema.json

Should the comment about wingetcreate be removed?

[Muhammad Danish (mdanish-kh)]

Ah, I see. The docs need to be updated, I just haven't found the time to go through the code and update the examples in wingetcreate update --help and also the docs .md pages.

Regarding the comment, it doesn't really matter. You can remove the comment if you feel like. Just don't remove the # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.installer.1.5.0.schema.json line as it helps people using the YAML extension get intellisense suggestions