Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 03/20/2011 10:15 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees<joel.rees@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically)
> is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system
> maps it to "/usr/bin/nano".
>
> You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo" if you just want vi in this instance.
>
> Or you can run "update-alternatives --config editor" to point
> "/usr/bin/editor" to "/usr/bin/vi".
That's interesting.  In my distro (PCLOS) I had to modify visudo to add 
myself, and I had not
configured any editor.  It seems that the _vi_ part of "visudo" means 
the vi editor, because that's
how it opened.  I had to go and look up the vi commands to save and 
exit.  Now if I ever need to
do it again, I'll know I can use something more user-friendly.  Thanx 
for the heads-up.

--doug

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