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Helen_Wan's avatar
Helen_Wan
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Apr 12, 2014

change irule editor

How do I change the iRule editor from GNU nano to VI.  
irule
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David_Holmes_12
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May 03, 2014

Hi Helen, if you are talking about the built-in editor for the tmsh command, you can switch between vi and nano with this tmsh command:

(tmos) modify cli preference editor vi
(tmos) save sys config

Or are you talking about the Windows iRule Editor? https://devcentral.f5.com/d/irule-editor-msi

If so, I don't think there's a way to change the editing mechanics of that.

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    Helen_Wan
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    May 06, 2014
    Oh great! I was referring to the built-in editor for the tmsh command. I wanted to be able to use a script to create and edit iRules and vi seems more amenable for this since I could combine my bsh/perl scripting with expect. I will definitely give it a try. Thank you very much.