Hello Nitesh, Thanks for your help. Your answer can work. What I did: 1. added EDITOR=vim to /etc/environment 2. source /etc/environment 3. restart the session In Ubuntu/Debian,also could run select-editor to change the editor of virsh edit. Thanks, dw 在 2016年12月28日 18:17, Nitesh Konkar 写道:

Hello dw,

Can you plz try this method and check if it works:

Set the preferred editor in |/etc/environment| file (to define it globally) and then restart the session.

You may follow these links for more info on the topic. Link 1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2014-September/msg00039.html Link 2: https://askubuntu.com/questions/432524/how-do-i-find-and-set-my-editor-envir...

Thanks, Nitesh.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 2:30 PM, dw <dwlinuxkernel@163.com <mailto:dwlinuxkernel@163.com>> wrote:

Hi:

when I modify VM's xml file,the editor is VI,how to set to other editor forever?

Now I can change the editor to VIM from VI with setting environment EDITOR=$my-favorite-editor, but after rebooting,it is VI again.

thanks

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