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

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 10:40, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Obeying EDITOR is required by POSIX e.g. see
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/crontab.html#tag_20_25_08
>
> Note that POSIX says "The default editor shall be vi." But that means
> when EDITOR isn't set. If the system or a user sets EDITOR to
> something else, it's still POSIX-conforming.

Thank you for the clarification and the reference. Clearly the POSIX
standard is plain wrong. But this is not the right platform to discuss
this issue.

Cheers,
Orcan
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