Hi Andy,

> I generally don't set VISUAL or EDITOR unless I absolutely have to
> (e.g. on Ubuntu which defaults to nano)

That reminds me: Debian, and Ubuntu, have /usr/bin/editor and
sensible-editor(1) that programs can fall back on.  What that is can be
set system-wide, or per user.
https://manned.org/sensible-editor.1
https://manned.org/select-editor.1
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#editors-and-pagers

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