Hi Carsten.
Thanks for your swift, to the point reply! According to
http://ss64.com/bash/export.html , "An average user will saturate their
cognitive capacity if they have more than seven things to remember" . I
may not be average, but still forgot to remember the export indeed :-).
> From: Carsten Aulbert <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: 01/03/2011 14:46
> Subject: Re: virsh editor
>
> Hu Jurgen
>
> On Tuesday 01 March 2011 14:36:59 [email protected] wrote:
> > I have a small question: whenever I fire up virsh and want to edit a
> > domain, it launches vi and I would like it to be nano. Although i
> > configured .bashrc to contain EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano and
> > VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano , virsh seems not to care. So I need to launch
> > 'EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano virsh' to get my wish fulfilled. What am I
doing
> > wrong?
>
> Are you exporting the values in .bashrc?
>
> i.e.
>
> export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
>
> (or
>
> EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
> export EDITOR
> )?
I did not, and after doing so, all is fine!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Carsten
Thanks, Jürgen
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