[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#574415: Bug#574415: Ignores $VISUAL.

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:30:26PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.7.7-2
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/virsh
> 
> >From the following transcript, you can see that virsh honours $EDITOR,
> but not $VISUAL.  Convention is that the latter takes precedence over
> the former (e.g. with EDITOR=ex VIRTUAL=vim, virsh should pick vim).
> 
>     $ VISUAL=false EDITOR=true virsh -c test:///default edit 1
>     Domain test XML configuration not changed.
> 
>     $ VISUAL=true EDITOR=false virsh -c test:///default edit 1
>     error: false /tmp/virsh6vpIIF: command exited with non-zero status
This is being worked on upstream:
	http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg21773.html
Cheers,
 -- Guido