Let's make Fedora more approachable, by having a default editor that doesn't require specialist knowledge to use.
+1
What about micro? It seems to be even better.
micro
This change is long overdue, IMHO. nano is a good default editor for Fedora.
It's pretty fat to install, and we struggle to meet the boundaries for the ISO as it currently stands. Also, we already have nano preinstalled, and there's a wealth of existing "practice" from other distros that default to GNU nano already (e.g. the entire Debian family).
nano
I am personally very fond of micro, but I think nano is more conservative default. That's also what the change owners proposed and I am +1 to that.
Next time we can change it to ed.
ed
OK, the size argument is reasonable.
APPROVED (+8, 0, -0)
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I removed nano, now I am getting this error message.
✗ git commit -av hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... fatal: cannot run /usr/bin/nano: No such file or directory error: unable to start editor '/usr/bin/nano' Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
Why doesn't it fallback to nvim or vim?
nvim
vim
You need to restart your session. The old config is present in an environment variable.
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