On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote:

It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically)
is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system
maps it to "/usr/bin/nano".

You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo" if you just want vi in this instance.

Or you can run "update-alternatives --config editor" to point
"/usr/bin/editor" to "/usr/bin/vi".


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