[PLUG] visudo for ubuntu ... pico? nano? joe?

[Michael Rasmussen]

or as my .bashrc says:

# I want VI not whatever crap they installed
export EDITOR='/usr/bin/vim'
export VISUAL='/usr/bin/gvim'



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       Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
     Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

On 2021-10-04 01:12, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I am learning about Ubuntu sysadmin, and why I should use
> visudo instead of logging in as root user to use vi.
> This assumes that Eve hasn't inserted a malware version
> of visudo into my path ...
> 
> Except - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, visudo calls the "nano"
> text editor, and on 20.04 LTS it calls the "joe" text
> editor.  So WHY still call it visudo?
> 
> Anyway, I will use vi (aka vim) until they pry my keyboard
> out of my cold dead fingers.  I change editors as often as
> I change lungs.
> 
> Other helpful guest sysadmins may prefer this shifting
> editor nonsense, so I plan to leave /usr/bin/visudo as-is
> and create a /usr/local/sbin/vvisudo shell script
> containing "sudo EDITOR=vim visudo" ...
> 
> ... and add Yet Another Postit with how to exit nano
> or joe, or whatever editor they eventually choose for
> 22.04 LTS, in case I forget the extra v for vvisudo.
> 
> Keith
> 
> P.S.  Ctl-x for nano, Ctl-k for joe.  I think ...
> 
> P.P.S.  vi turns fifty in 2026.  I've used it since it
> was beta.  Others change editors more often than they
> change their underwear.