Is this a vote? If so -1. Don't pave the jungle, put on some boots!
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 12:33, David Kaufmann <as...@ionic.at> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:15:58AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > The most user friendly solution is to have nano by default with a very > easy > > way to revert to vim for anyone that knows what they are doing. > > No, it is not. It is user friendly to the users only using the command > line a few times or the users who prefer nano. > > For users having to edit files on a lot of different systems this is > actually harmful and leads to bad behavior. > > On a lot of systems I manage new users don't get a default shell - which > is reasonable for service users - which led to the behavior that I only > edit files as root - I think the reason is that switching to a service > user ends up in /bin/sh and tab completion often does not work anymore. > > Maybe it is an option to limit this change to Fedora Workstation and > non-root accounts only? Or even better to put it as default only for > users created via GUI? > This could be achieved by appending 'alias EDITOR="nano"' to the .bashrc > from /etc/skel. > > I'm fine with configuring it on my machine, but as I administer a lot of > machines (both Workstation and Server) I think the default for admins > should stay vi. > > So it is a -1 from me for the current variant of the proposal. > > All the best, > David > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- David Kirwan Software Engineer Community Platform Engineering @ Red Hat T: +(353) 86-8624108 IM: @dkirwan
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