Re: vipw and vigr default editor

[John Ratliff <john@bluemarble.net>]

On 1/5/2018 3:25 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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

Thanks.

This was the solution.

--John