On 26/06/20 13:32 +0200, David Kaufmann wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:15:58AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The most user friendly solution is to have nano by default with a very easy
way to revert to vim for anyone that knows what they are doing.
No, it is not. It is user friendly to the users only using the command
line a few times or the users who prefer nano.
For users having to edit files on a lot of different systems this is
actually harmful and leads to bad behavior.
On a lot of systems I manage new users don't get a default shell - which
is reasonable for service users - which led to the behavior that I only
edit files as root - I think the reason is that switching to a service
user ends up in /bin/sh and tab completion often does not work anymore.
Maybe it is an option to limit this change to Fedora Workstation and
non-root accounts only? Or even better to put it as default only for
users created via GUI?
This could be achieved by appending 'alias EDITOR="nano"' to the .bashrc
from /etc/skel.
I'm fine with configuring it on my machine, but as I administer a lot of
machines (both Workstation and Server) I think the default for admins
should stay vi.
Only doing it for non-root users seems OK to me. Alternatively, just
add EDITOR=vi to root's profile.
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