Month: February 2010

In most of the Linux distribution the defalut editor is set to “VI” and it’s very much popular editor too. But the strange in Ubuntu the default editor is “nano”. But most of the people are well in using vi editor. Here in this post I am going to show how to change the default editor in ubuntu(ie nano) to vi editor To do this we have to sudo or login as root. and execute the below command.$sudo update-alternatives –config editor When you execute above command it will show all the editors installed in your machine, and it ask you to set the default editor by specifying number. There are 4 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).Selection Path Priority Status————————————————————* 0 /bin/nano 40 auto mode1 /bin/ed -100 manual mode2 /bin/nano 40 manual mode3 /usr/bin/vim.basic 30 manual mode4 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 10 manual modePress enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:Here I want to change it to vi edioter so just enter 3 to set it as a default editor.Here is my clipped output how I didupdate-alternatives –config editorThere are 4 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).Selection Path Priority Status————————————————————* 0 /bin/nano 40 auto mode1 /bin/ed -100 manual mode2 /bin/nano 40 manual mode3 /usr/bin/vim.basic 30 manual mode4 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 10 manual modePress enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3update-alternatives : using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide...