On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:15:58AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The most user friendly solution is to have nano by default with a very easy > way to revert to vim for anyone that knows what they are doing.
No, it is not. It is user friendly to the users only using the command line a few times or the users who prefer nano. For users having to edit files on a lot of different systems this is actually harmful and leads to bad behavior. On a lot of systems I manage new users don't get a default shell - which is reasonable for service users - which led to the behavior that I only edit files as root - I think the reason is that switching to a service user ends up in /bin/sh and tab completion often does not work anymore. Maybe it is an option to limit this change to Fedora Workstation and non-root accounts only? Or even better to put it as default only for users created via GUI? This could be achieved by appending 'alias EDITOR="nano"' to the .bashrc from /etc/skel. I'm fine with configuring it on my machine, but as I administer a lot of machines (both Workstation and Server) I think the default for admins should stay vi. So it is a -1 from me for the current variant of the proposal. All the best, David
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