libvirt users - Jul 2016 - Permanently change default virsh editor

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)?


Ref:
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ

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

Awesome. Thank you that worked great.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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

Normally, you can set environment variables in .bashrc or .bash_profile and
if I am not mistaken in /etc, there is alos a bashrc file that is
system-wide, maybehave a look at it.

After changing one of those file execute the following command to update
your current console configuration

source <path/to/file>

exemple:

source ~/.bashrc


Regards,


Roland.



On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
wrote:
> 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
>
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