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Asked: June 1, 20262026-06-01T23:03:21+00:00 2026-06-01T23:03:21+00:00

I use perforce for my revision control, when I hit ‘p4 change’ it always

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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.

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    2026-06-01T23:03:22+00:00Added an answer on June 1, 2026 at 11:03 pm

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

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