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