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

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On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 14:03 +0200, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote:
> > 
> > Then I will +1 for this proposal. Yes, this certainly will make Fedora
> > easier use for beginners. And for those who would like to use vi as
> > default, we should make this as easy as possible.
> 
> This seems the best approach in my opinion.
> I totally agree that having something simple is important for new users.
> My only fear (and it applies to any default editor choice) is that the
> default will be changed only by a minority of new-users, or after many
> months.

FWIW, I still use nano *precisely because* getting vi thrown at me so
unexpectedly was so damn annoying I flat out refuse to learn it. In
other words, being the default was *actively harmful* to vi's chances
in my case. :P
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