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 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-3 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap-ng0 0.6.3-1 An alternate posix capabilities li ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdevmapper1.02. 2:1.02.39-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libhal1 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libnuma1 2.0.4~rc2-1 Libraries for controlling NUMA pol ii libparted1.8-12 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libpciaccess0 0.11.0-2 Generic PCI access library for X ii libreadline6 6.1-1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libudev0 151-3 libudev shared library ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library ii libvirt0 0.7.7-2 library for interfacing with diffe ii libxenstore3.0 3.4.3~rc3-1 Xenstore communications library fo ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library ii logrotate 3.7.8-4 Log rotation utility Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends: pn bridge-utils <none> (no description available) pn dnsmasq-base <none> (no description available) ii iptables 1.4.6-2 administration tools for packet fi ii netcat-openbsd 1.89-3 TCP/IP swiss army knife pn qemu <none> (no description available) Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests: pn policykit-1 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org