[CentOS-docs] proposal TipsAndTricks/EditorDefaultNano

Wed Dec 1 21:12:26 UTC 2010
Marcus Moeller <mail at marcus-moeller.de>

Dear Ed.

>  On my systems, I set nano to be the default editor.  Is this something
> that can be done with some sort of configuration script?  I don't find
> anything like system-switch-mail for editors.
>
>  I do it in my kickstart files, but it can easily be done from a
> command line.  Since nano is only useful to people using the command
> line, I think it completely appropriate...
>
>  Is a document describing this short process desirable to have on the
> wiki?
>
> yum install -y nano
> echo "set nowrap" >>/etc/nanorc
> cat <<EOF >>/etc/profile.d/nano.sh
> export VISUAL="nano"
> export EDITOR="nano"
> EOF

You may want to add some notes about the ability to define these
variables on per user base:

echo "export EDITOR=nano" >> ~/.bash_profile && echo "export
VISUAL=nano" >> ~/.bash_profile

-- 
Greets
Marcus