On 22/04/15 00:49, Allan McRae wrote: > On 22/04/15 07:00, Evangelos Foutras wrote: >> On 21/04/15 23:45, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >>> As long as the EDITOR variable is supported by those programs, maybe yes. >>> But I don't think creating a symlink *anyway* and make vim provide vi >>> is inappropriate. >> >> Yes, the VISUAL/EDITOR environment variables should still be honored by >> these applications. It's only the default fallback editor that is going >> to change. >> >> I'm slightly against adding a vi symlink. That suggestion made sense so >> as not to break programs that use vi as their default editor. With nano >> as the default editor, there's no technical reason to do this anymore. >> > > I think the symlink is very important. And I am very against VIsudo > calling anything other than vi by default. Unless you rename it nanosudo.
The problem is that vim is not provided in [core] and cannot be part of a base installation. We can't make an editor from [extra] the default. I'm open to suggestions, but consider that nano is the only remaining editor in [core]. (And it will work fine as a fallback editor.)
