On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 13:37 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > 
> > Mint's default seems to be nano, though like openSUSE, it is doing this
> > some way other than by setting $EDITOR.
> > 
> Mints just a derivative of openSuse, isn't it?  It would make sense that this
> followed.

I thought it was a derivative of Debian and/or Ubuntu? Wikipedia has it
in the 'Ubuntu derivatives' category. But anyhow, it doesn't behave
like openSUSE, it doesn't have the weird mix - for all three tests I
used (visudo, git, systemctl edit) I got nano.

> > So, it's a bit of a mixed bag, overall. But Ubuntu and Mint both using
> > nano is pretty significant.
> > 
> Yeah, but significant in what way?  We have two fairly popular distributions
> using nano, but over 1,000,000 people trying to figure out how to exit vi on
> stackexchange.  Is the user base for other distros defaulting to vi just that
> much bigger?

Dunno. Maybe if Debian and Ubuntu defaulted to vi there'd be 5,000,000
people? :D
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