On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:00:43PM -0500, John Ratliff wrote: > I have to do > > sudo EDITOR=vim vipw > > How can I make vim the default editor for vipw/vigr. Or how can I set the > EDITOR variable when I use sudo automatically?
By default, sudo strips all the useful variables out of your environment. If you want it to *keep* your environment, you need to change the /etc/sudoers file (with "sudo EDITOR=whatever visudo"). One way to do it is: Defaults env_reset Defaults:greg !env_reset ... where "greg" is the username who is trusted to set environment vars.
