Hello,

visudo launching nano would really surprise me :)

-Michael

> On 11 Oct 2021, at 21:57, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> On 11/10/2021 18:14, Jon Murphy wrote:
>> Vim as default is fine!
>> 
>> The only default editor setting I know of is in fcron.
>> 
>> # Location of the default editor for "fcrontab -e"
>> #editor     =   /usr/bin/vi
>> editor      =   /usr/bin/nano
>>  Is there another?
>> 
> If you want to edit the sudoers file you have to use the visudo command which by default uses vi.
> 
> You can use nano with visudo by running
> 
> # EDITOR=nano visudo
> 
> and to change the editor permanently add the following into the sudoers file.
> 
> # Reset environment by default
> Defaults      env_reset
> # Set default EDITOR to nano, and do not allow visudo to use EDITOR/VISUAL.
> Defaults      editor=/usr/bin/nano, !env_editor
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>>> On 10 Oct 2021, at 20:42, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’m not sure nano is "the" answer though I do like it.  Just anything besides vim.
>>>> 
>>>> Vim is fine for developers.  It is the non-developers that struggle.  This article explains it pretty well and it includes my struggles to exit!
>>>> 
>>>> https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/
>>>> 
>>>> Q: How do you generate a random string?
>>>> A: Put a user in front of vi, and tell them to exit
>>> 
>>> LOL. Good one.
>>> 
>>> I wouldn’t be against adding nano to the core distribution, although I would draw the line there and say that Joe is then out :)
>>> 
>>> However, I wouldn’t want to make it the default editor if that is okay.
>>> 
>>> -Michael
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 10, 2021, at 7:55 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have (or had) a couple of editors and I am quite against shipping them all.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Everyone has their favourites, and there will always be another one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is wrong with vim?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Michael
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 9 Oct 2021, at 22:07, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is it possible to move `nano` from addon to core?  It is SOOOOO much easier to use than vim.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I understand it is an easy installed addon but it seems like it really belongs in "core".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 9, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 08/10/2021 19:22, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>> For details see:
>>>>>>>> https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> lfs/nano | 6 +++---
>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/lfs/nano b/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> index 3bb7806aa..237dfab20 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> +++ b/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>>>>>>> include Config
>>>>>>>> -VER        = 5.8
>>>>>>>> +VER        = 5.9
>>>>>>>> THISAPP    = nano-$(VER)
>>>>>>>> DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
>>>>>>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DL_FROM    = $(URL_IPFIRE)
>>>>>>>> DIR_APP    = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> TARGET     = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> PROG       = nano
>>>>>>>> -PAK_VER    = 38
>>>>>>>> +PAK_VER    = 39
>>>>>>>> DEPS       = ""
>>>>>>>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> -$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = d2249e3dd108c830df00efd7c1b79d86
>>>>>>>> +$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = 24b67a7a2e731d3a5ec6d154b4521d08
>>>>>>>> install : $(TARGET)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>