Universal Blue•11mo ago

Change default editor

How can I change the default editor to vim?

I looked in:

FAQ
Documentation
Silverblue FAQ/documentation
This forum/thread

Many apologies if I've missed the documentation on this simple question.

HikariKnight•2/1/25, 9:14 PM

in terminal

HikariKnight•2/1/25, 9:14 PM

EDITOR=vimEDITOR=vim

HikariKnight•2/1/25, 9:15 PM

literally environment variable you can drop in .config/environment.d/whatever.conf.config/environment.d/whatever.conf

HikariKnight•2/1/25, 9:15 PM

this is the same on all linux systems

DemonTazOP•2/1/25, 11:47 PM

Sorry. I don' t have ~/.config/environment.d/ on my system. On other distros, I used update-alternatives or another distro-specific method. I found the 'alternatives' command on bazzite. However, this is the first distro I've used which didn't have a pre-configured editor entry, thus my question.

Do you know if there is a bazzite-specific way to set the editor system-wide to vim which persists across sessions/reboots? If not, perhaps someone else who does could answer.

HikariKnight•2/2/25, 12:55 AM

environment variables persist.
you can probably use update-alternatives too

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