Change editor for sensuctl when using Windows operating systems
Set environment variable
sensuctl will look for an environment variable EDITOR we can set it to a different text editor, in this example I am using VSCODE
Using Powershell you can set the EDITOR variable, in this example the scope it is set to Machine
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('EDITOR','code --wait --new-window',[System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)
VSCode should be installed and available in your system path in order to use code in the above example
Windows and Linux installations should add the VS Code binaries location to your system path. If this isn’t the case, you can manually add the location to the
Pathenvironment variable ($PATHon Linux). For example, on Windows, VS Code is installed underAppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin.
I have not tested with notepad.exe it is the default text editor available on Windows. There are several alternatives, vim is available as a chocolatey package or notepad++
Once this variable has been set you may need to restart your shell in order for the variable to be recognized.
sensuctl edit check <checkname>
will now launch vscode and allow you to make changes using that as your text editor.
