On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:27 AM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Same here, to be honest. Being dropped into vi when I ran some command (I think it was visudo?) was honestly pretty traumatizing as a new Linux user a ~decade ago, and to this day one of the first things I do on a new Fedora system is set EDITOR=nano in my .bashrc. I strongly support this change. Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
