On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:18 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > So all those people are happy with vi? IMHO an argument for changing > > this would be that a lot of people are already changing EDITOR to nano, > > so it makes sense to make it a default. If this is actually not the > > case it is not very convincing to change this. > > I think people may not be happy with something, but if it's not trivial to > change > (and knowing that EDITOR may be set in bash configuration, but the > variable has to be exported, and then you need to reload the shell config > because > the change does not take effect immediately is not trivial), they will > continue to use the default as long as they are able to get by. > Or they just try Fedora and immediately mark it as a distro not for them. Because when they do "git commit" in Ubuntu, it opens up a reasonably user friendly editor (nano). When they do it in Fedora, it opens up a screen they don't even know how to exit (vi). If I were a new user to Linux, it would be clear to me which distribution is for me and which one is definitely not.
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