How to set vim as default cscope editor?

linux vim cscope
brokenfoot picture brokenfoot · Jan 24, 2015 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

cscope opens my files in vi. Is there a way to change it so that it opens files in vim instead ?

Edit: I tried: 

export CSCOPE_EDITOR=vim

For some weird reason, if I type :help on the file opened, it shows vim help which indicates it is opened in vim but it doesn't seem to read my .vimrc. How can I make it read my .vimrc ?

Edit 2: Machine/tool info

[user@machine] $  printenv | grep -i cscope    
CSCOPE_EDITOR=vim

[user@machine] $  vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Jul 10 2012 08:48:09)
Included patches: 1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 19-26, 29-31, 34-44, 47, 50-56, 58-64, 66-73, 75, 77-92, 94-107, 109, 202, 234-237

[user@machine] $  cscope -V
cscope: version 15.5

Answer

user3852528 picture user3852528 · Aug 9, 2016

Just make sure that your .vimrc is at the same location as .bashrc. And then in .bashrc, add the following line:

export CSCOPE_EDITOR=vim

This worked for me.

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