Perforce changing the default editor

Question

I use perforce for my revision control, when I hit 'p4 change' it always opens up the list on emacs, and we all know the pain of deleting text in it. How do i change it to gedit or vim or anything else? My default text editor is gedit.

Answer 1

On the command line, set P4EDITOR either as an environment variable or in the P4CONFIG file.

Answer 2

From the command line,

p4 set P4EDITOR="C:\File Editor\editor.exe"

You can test that this was successfull by running the following command after, which should launch your desired editor.

p4 workspace

Answer 3

I had similar problem on my Windows system.
It always used to open clumsy notepad. I am more comfortable with TextPad, so to change default perforce editor, I made following changes: I opened System Properties and added new environment variable as following:

Name: `P4EDITOR` 
Value: `C:\Program Files (x86)\TextPad 4\TextPad.exe`

After that open a new CMD and there you go !!!

Answer 4

For Notepad++ I needed to use this command -multiInst to trigger edits.

p4 set P4EDITOR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe -multiInst"

Answer 5

Try setting the EDITOR environment variable. Also, the command line p4 should have an option to specify an editor. Also, the .p4config file might have something as well.

Answer 6

Also need to check if EDITOR/P4EDITOR path is correct. If path is wrong, perforce will choose previously working editor.