On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 1:45 PM Adam Williamson
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 13:37 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > >
> > > Mint's default seems to be nano, though like openSUSE, it is doing this
> > > some way other than by setting $EDITOR.
> > >
> > Mints just a derivative of openSuse, isn't it?  It would make sense that 
> > this
> > followed.
>
> I thought it was a derivative of Debian and/or Ubuntu? Wikipedia has it
> in the 'Ubuntu derivatives' category. But anyhow, it doesn't behave
> like openSUSE, it doesn't have the weird mix - for all three tests I
> used (visudo, git, systemctl edit) I got nano.
>

Linux Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, thus is a member of the Debian family.

> > > So, it's a bit of a mixed bag, overall. But Ubuntu and Mint both using
> > > nano is pretty significant.
> > >
> > Yeah, but significant in what way?  We have two fairly popular distributions
> > using nano, but over 1,000,000 people trying to figure out how to exit vi on
> > stackexchange.  Is the user base for other distros defaulting to vi just 
> > that
> > much bigger?
>
> Dunno. Maybe if Debian and Ubuntu defaulted to vi there'd be 5,000,000
> people? :D

Probably! :D


-- 
真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
_______________________________________________
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

Reply via email to