ae as default editor?

[joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Martin Schulze)]

Good morning folks,

Why is ae the default editor for vipw/vigr even on a completely
installed system?

Doesn't VI-gr/pw suggest that a VI clone is executed?  I can
understand to use ae as a fallback editor, but not as the main one

# dpkg -l passwd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  passwd          1.0-5          Change password data.

Regards,

	Joey

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