diff --git a/.profile b/.profile
index e19a0d38..894a5b0c 100644
--- a/.profile
+++ b/.profile
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="$WINEDLLOVERRIDES;winemenubuilder.exe=d"
 ## 'em' is a custom wrapper for emacsclient. See '.bin/em'.
 ## VISUAL is given priority by some programs like Mutt. This way we can separate
 ## editors that wait from those that don't.
-for i in emacsclient em emacs vim vi nano; do
+for i in emacsclient em emacs zile vim nano vi; do
 	command -v $i >/dev/null 2>&1 && export EDITOR=$i && break
 done
 GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"