nanosudo? (default update-alternatives --config editor choice)

[Phil Dobbin]

On 12/23/2012 09:55 PM, Paul Sladen wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> I've just spun up a 12.04 remote virtual machine & when I ran the visudo
>> command, it plonked me into nano.
> 
> Which editor would you prefer Ubuntu to default to?  Can you list the
> advantages and distadvantages (pros/cons) of changing the default
> editor that Ubuntu sets for users?

Well, the clue is in the name: visudo. vi (or nowadays seeing vi is
symlinked to vim), vim has always been been the default hence the name.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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