Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

[Mike Edenfield]

On 10/1/2009 10:44 AM, Arthur D. wrote:

> I just installed VIM with emerge, and removed nano because I considered
> it to be absolutely unnecessary in my system. Why I need nano? I am a VIM
> fan. And here the troubles begin...
> Run "sudo visudo" and you get this:
> ~ $ sudo visudo
> visudo: no editor found (editor path = /bin/nano)
> ~ $ env | grep -i edit
> EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim


You have two options:

1. Tell sudo to preserve the EDITOR variable in /etc/sudoers:

	Defaults        env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL PAGER"

Otherwise sudo will ignore your environment and use the defaults for the 
new user.

2. Change the default editor on your system by putting something in 
/etc/env.d:

apollo ~ # cat /etc/env.d/99editor
EDITOR="vim"


--Mike