From 926489ae3a624c97f1c2228ea2508a15e8e361bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: classabbyamp <dev@placeviolette.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 22:11:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] run.sh: respect VIRTUAL_ENV

---
 CHANGELOG.md |  1 +
 run.sh       | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fc7d857..5412309 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Support for Python 3.14.
 ### Changed
 - Updated Pycord to 2.7.1.
+- `run.sh` to respect the `VIRTUAL_ENV` environment variable.
 
 
 ## [2.9.2] - 2023-12-15
diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index d2337ec..b6a1ff2 100644
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@
 # https://github.com/0x5c/quick-bot-no-pain
 
 
-# If $BOTENV is not defined, default to 'botenv'
-if [ -z "$BOTENV" ]; then
-    BOTENV='botenv'
+if [ -n "$VIRTUAL_ENV" ]; then
+    BOTENV="$VIRTUAL_ENV"
 fi
 
+if [ -z "$BOTENV" ]; then
+    BOTENV='./botenv'
+fi
 
 # Argument handling
 _PASS_ERRORS=0
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ while true; do
     if [ $_NO_BOTENV -eq 1 ]; then
         "$PYTHON_BIN" main.py "$@"
     else
-        "./$BOTENV/bin/python3" main.py "$@"
+        "$BOTENV/bin/python3" main.py "$@"
     fi
     err=$?
     _message="$0: The bot exited with [$err]"