nanosudo?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just spun up a 12.04 remote virtual machine & when I ran the visudo
> command, it plonked me into nano. Whilst this is easy to fix (sudo
> update-alternatives --config editor), I'm puzzled as to when this happened.
>
> I know it happened on some of the Red Hat clones but it was duly
> reported upstream as a bug & upstream confirmed it was bug.
>
> Is it a bug on Ubuntu or is this behaviour now the default?

It's not a bug. The default editor in Debian and Ubuntu is nano -
weirdly for visudo :)