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

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> El jue., 25 jun. 2020 a las 21:45, Qiyu Yan (< yanqiyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >)
> escribió:
> 
> 
> 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.
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> Well, I strongy disagree whit this move.
> In fact on of the things that I hate of Debian/Ubuntu is the choice of nano
> and the poor version that they offer by default of vi.
> More friendly for end-users? Really?
> Please thinking so, the end-user use GUI's. Nano has no any significative
> advantage over vi and even lesser over vim. What's the wrong with vim?
> Really I don't understand.
> If one end-user wants to use a text editor, he will find kate, gedit and the
> like better options. If you don't like a modal editor, propose a better
> option not a mediocre one. For example, micro is a non-modal editor but more
> powerful that nano.
> If has no real benefit, please could you reconsider it and let the community
> give his voice?
> Thanks in advance.
> SB
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-1 for the change. If the so called 'end-user' (whatever does it mean)
can learn git, she or he can also learn 'vi' or at least how to enable
the preferred editor. Personally, I can see nothing special on the
nano, for me it qualifies as very poor editor

thanks & regards

Jaroslav
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