Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

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On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 08:44 +0800, Qiyu Yan wrote:
> What about to provide a prompt to the user telling them the difference
> between editors?
> For example, when a new user to fedora first invokes git commit
> without $EDITOR set, a program named fedora-default-editor comes up
> and asks: Which editor do you like?
> User can do his or hers choice and the choice will be remembered by
> setting $EDITOR in his or hers ~/.bashrc
> 
> The fedora-default-editor can be a small script that shows user all
> the difference and set $EDITOR for the user.

It's a nice idea, but the problem with things like this is they
*always* introduce bugs, and often wind up being unmaintained, because
keeping them working is kind of a thankless task.

IMHO it's better to keep things simple and just pick a default. And the
default should definitely be nano. :D
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