[lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor

Lai Wei-Hwa whlai at robco.com
Wed Nov 22 14:57:11 UTC 2017


Ron, 

You're telling me the normal way to set your default editor. I know how to do this. The problem is that my default editor is nano, which I want, but when I:
$ lxc profile edit default 
It still opens in VI. This is an LXC issue. 

Thanks! 
Lai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kelley" <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com>
To: "lxc-users" <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:07:32 PM
Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor

sudo update-alternatives --config editor

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Set_Vim_as_your_default_editor_for_Unix





> On Nov 21, 2017, at 7:49 PM, Lai Wei-Hwa <whlai at robco.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, but that's the problem, it's still opening in VI
> 
> Thanks! 
> Lai
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Björn Fischer" <bf at CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
> To: "lxc-users" <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:46:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> $ lxc profile edit default
>> Opens in VI even though my editor is nano (save the flaming)
>> 
>> How can we edit the default editor?
> 
> $ EDITOR=nano
> $ export EDITOR
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Björn
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