Although I'm a die-hard vi user myself, I do appreciate that it is
absolutely the wrong default if someone innocent accidentally runs into
it. :-)

Therefore I am reopening this bug for usability reasons. I think the
least that we can do is to add a comment to the top of the file to
document how to use a different editor.

** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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"visudo" is completely unusable (/etc/sudoers can only be editted with an 
external text editor)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207369
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