Once upon a time, Alejandro Lopez <[email protected]> said:
> The simplest solution is to set EDITOR to vi in your whole environment, not
> only for login shells. In my environment, I set EDITOR to vi in my own
> ~/.bashrc.d/vi file.

That doesn't work for the case of "sudo visudo", for the same reason
that the vim-default-editor RPM doesn't work: no shell is started.

> If, for any reason, you cannot set it (for instance, if you want to use vi
> only for sudo but what to use nano for the rest of the things), you can set
> the SUDO_EDITOR variable (this is supposed to work but I never tried it).

That also doesn't work because SUDO_EDITOR is not inherited from the
environment through sudo.

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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