(I'm assuming this isn't a prank about vi)
I'm afraid this is the direct result of bug #388659, which means that
visudo will now use vi by default. Vi is an editor with a rather
different model of editing.
If you want to use nano, set your $EDITOR variable (eg, export
EDITOR=nano), and then either use sudo -E to run visudo, or remove
env_reset from sudoers.
I'm closing this as invalid, because it seems that it is actually the
correct, documented behaviour of visudo (there is, after all, a reason
for it to have that name). Discussions about changing this probably need
to take place elsewhere.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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"visudo" is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an
external text editor)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207369
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