Re: vipw and vigr default editor

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:00:43PM -0500, John Ratliff wrote:
> When I run
> 
> sudo vipw or sudo vigr, it uses nano as the default editor. I've already
> used update-alternatives to select vim as my default editor, but this
> doesn't seem to work for vipw/vigr.
> 
> I have to do
> 
> sudo EDITOR=vim vipw
> 
> How can I make vim the default editor for vipw/vigr. Or how can I set the
> EDITOR variable when I use sudo automatically?
> 
Try 'sudo select-editor'

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez