glab(1)

💅 glab-config-edit — like, the glab(1) manual page, but make it make sense 🎀

okay bestie, so this is a page from the glab(1) manual and it's specifically about glab config edit — the little command that pops open your glab config file in an editor. it's giving "small but mighty" ngl ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

glab-config-edit — opens the glab configuration file. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

glab config edit [flags]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so when you run this, glab has to figure out which editor to open your config in. and it's not random — there's a whole little priority list it goes through, in this exact order, no cap:

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

like, it checks them top to bottom and the first one it finds wins. main character energy for whoever's at #1, honestly. 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l, --local[=false] — opens the .git/glab-cli/config.yml file instead of the global ~/.config/glab-cli/config.yml file. so it's like "hey, keep it local bestie" 🏠 vs. the global one which is your whole-world config.

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💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

• -h, --help[=false] — shows help for this command. the classic. the moment. when you're lost, press it. 🙈

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

the receipts, literally verbatim:

# 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

see that third one? that's the permanent glow-up — set vim once and every future glab config edit just knows. obsessed. 🌈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• glab-config(1) — the parent command, go say hi 💖

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little reminder: --local opens the repo-level file at .git/glab-cli/config.yml, while the default is the global ~/.config/glab-cli/config.yml. don't mix 'em up, bestie 🫶

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and that's the page!! ✨ auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Nov 2026, and yeah — this was glab(1). slay, you read the whole thing 💅🎀🦋