On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Joe Hart wrote:
> >> BTW, anyone know why the command visudo launches nano on Debian?  On
> >> PCLOS  (which is supposedly one of the user friendly distros) it lauches
> >> vi, like the name implies.
> > 
> >     Because Debian probably sets $EDITOR and $VISUAL to nano instead of
> > [el|n]vi[m|s].
> > 

check out update-alternatives in order to change that... I think.

> Thank you.  Learn something new again.  This is so fun.  I probably can
> find things like that out in a book or manual or faq, but there is _so
> much_ to read.  I'm only halfway through my first book because I am too
> busy fiddling with this or that on the computer.
> 
> My wife and kids are starting to get a bit upset because I sit behind
> the computer too much :; .  I just wish I had seen the light a long time
> ago and switched to GNU/Linux in the Potato days.  Better late than
> never.  My family will just have to deal with it.  I'm already over the
> hump in the learning curve.  Windows is gone.
> 

yup.

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