On 07/06/2016 03:27 PM, J Travis Lindsey wrote: > Hello, I found in the docs that I can change the editor I use on a per vm > bases with the following: > *EDITOR=$your-favorite-editor virsh edit $your-vm-name* > > But how do I change it permanently so when I run: > *virsh edit $your-vm-name* > > It defaults to my favorite editor (vim)? EDITOR is just a shell environment variable, so if you're using bash shell drop something like export EDITOR=your-favorite-editor in ~/.bashrc, and it will be set for all future shell sessions - Cole

On 06.07.2016 21:27, J Travis Lindsey wrote: > Hello, I found in the docs that I can change the editor I use on a per vm > bases with the following: > *EDITOR=$your-favorite-editor virsh edit $your-vm-name* > > But how do I change it permanently so when I run: > *virsh edit $your-vm-name* > > It defaults to my favorite editor (vim)? This is distribution dependent. For instance, I'm unaware of any system-wide approach in Fedora (except for what Cole suggested, which will work everywhere). But for instance in gentoo you can: # eselect editor set vi Michal _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users