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

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 17:44 +0300, Arthur D. wrote:
[long post about something relatively trivial]

sudoedit (and others) use the EDITOR (or VISUAL or whatever) environment
variable to chose an editor.

Gentoo defaults to nano.  It's easy to change it (most experienced Linux
users do).

# emerge -C nano && emerge vim
# echo EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" >> /etc/env.d/99local
# env-update


And he's right, as a "meta" distribution, "it just works" is generally
*not* regarded as a Gentoo principle to shoot for.