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