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Opens the glab configuration file.

Synopsis

Opens the glab configuration file. The command uses the following order when choosing the editor to use:

  1. ‘glab_editor’ field in the configuration file
  2. ‘VISUAL’ environment variable
  3. ‘EDITOR’ environment variable

Examples

# Open the configuration file with the default editor
glab config edit

# Open the configuration file with vim
EDITOR=vim glab config edit

# Set vim to be used for all future 'glab config edit' invocations
glab config set editor vim
glab config edit

# Open the local configuration file with the default editor
glab config edit -l

Options

  -l, --local   Open '.git/glab-cli/config.yml' file instead of the global '~/.config/glab-cli/config.yml' file.

Options inherited from parent commands

  -h, --help   Show help for this command.