erk. Sorry, Doug. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for responding to the subject instead of the content, Tom. > > I swear, I must be getting too old for this. Or maybe I just have too > many questions to remember which one I'm asking. Oh. Either way, I'll > be lazy and blame it on my age. > > ;-> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: >> On 03/20/2011 10:15 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees<joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically) >>> is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system >>> maps it to "/usr/bin/nano". >>> >>> You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo" if you just want vi in this >>> instance. > > I tried that, and it didn't work. > > :-( > > Maybe I got the variable name wrong, I'll try it again. > >>> Or you can run "update-alternatives --config editor" to point >>> "/usr/bin/editor" to "/usr/bin/vi". > > Thanks for pointing me to the alternatives system, too. > > (I must say, I'm really not happy about having a distro essentially > apply a translation to my entire coordinate system, in the command > line tools, for pete sake. I can see Debian is going to be something > of a wild ride for me. I don't need to know the reasons, I already do. > No need for off-topic threads, here. I'll survive. :-/ ) > >> That's interesting. In my distro (PCLOS) I had to modify visudo to add >> myself, and I had not >> configured any editor. It seems that the _vi_ part of "visudo" means the vi >> editor, > > Yeah, Doug, vi. > > 8-o > > That's part of why I felt a little queasy when I saw the function > labels on the bottom of the screen. > >> because that's >> how it opened. I had to go and look up the vi commands to save and exit. >> Now if I ever need to >> do it again, I'll know I can use something more user-friendly. > > Not going to argue the user-friendly -- different strokes, etc. > > But, FWIW, I had already hit i-for-insert and started typing before I > realized I wasn't in OZ any more. (Heh.) I didn't recognize an undo > key in the labels, so I undid from memory, just in case, then guessed > which of the (terse) labels was quit-without-save. It was nice that > there were enough clues (and my memories of ancient text-mode word > processors helped) that I was able to close without saving and start > over. > > Once I knew it was nano, not vi, no big deal, just the initial false > step and the feelings of confusion as I backed out. > >> Thanx for >> the heads-up. > > I think this was my heads-up, too. I'm finding Debian isn't quite as > different from Fedora as either is from openbsd, but I'm finding it a > little slow going anyway. Lot's of things that don't work quite the > way I expect. > > Fun and games again. > > Joel >
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