Visudo invokes GNU nano rather than vi

[Dick Davies]

On 12/01/06, neil woolford <lists at neilwoolford.plus.com> wrote:

> >  sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim

> Thank you, that was exactly on the button!  And another useful feature
> of Debian systems for me to investigate...

Yeah, it's pretty cool. Packages can update the symlinks as they
are (un)installed, so it's less brittle than an environment variable.

But it's not Debian specific. Even (shudder) redhat has this these days....


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