How to change the default text editor ?

[_jason]

Vincent Trouilliez Wrote: 
> Hi,

> 

> I am using Dapper, I use subversion and when I went to do a commit,
> svn

> started vi for me to type my comments. In Breezy, it used to start
> nano

> instead, which is what I want to use.

> I assume their must be an environnement variable somewhere that
> controls

> what the default text editor is... what must I do exactly to set it to

> nano ? What file must I modify, what line to add exactly, and where in

> the file ?

> 

> Thanks much in advance... :-)

> 

> 

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> Vince

> 

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You may want to try ``sudo update-alternatives --config editor''.  I'm
not sure svn looks to that though


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_jason