On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM Jonathan Wakely via devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 18:05, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I recently installed a new Fedora system and was recreating all my > > preferred settings and realized that: > > > > 1) The https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault change > > for F33 never did the suggested documentation change, i.e. the Fedora > > quick docs do not say how to replace nano by installing > > vim-default-editor. That would be helpful. > > > > 2) Installing vim-default-editor doesn't help with 'sudo visudo' as > > that command will still use nano to edit the sudoers file. That's > > because the sudo command isn't in a login shell and so will not have > > EDITOR set in the environment. This means that visudo doesn't care > > about the environment, it only cares about the sudoers 'editor' > > setting. > > This seems to have changed for F36 via > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328973#c14 > > mattdm made visudo default to nano, on the basis that it's the default > since F33. But because 'sudo visudo' doesn't respect EDITOR by > default, this means that nano is the default for visudo even for > people who have installed vim-default-editor, or set EDITOR manually. > > Let's be honest, the users that the F33 UseNanoByDefault change > benefits (those who don't know how to set EDITOR in their shell > settings) probably aren't going to be running visudo anyway. And the > people who do know how to set it find that visudo ignores their EDITOR > setting. This isn't a great experience. >
I use visudo, and I like that it uses nano. I don't *love* that it's called visudo, but whatever. That said, visudo probably needs a patch to respect the EDITOR variable. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
