CentOS docs - Dec 2010 - proposal TipsAndTricks/EditorDefaultNano

On my systems, I set nano to be the default editor.  Is this something
that can be done with some sort of configuration script?  I don't find
anything like system-switch-mail for editors.

  I do it in my kickstart files, but it can easily be done from a
command line.  Since nano is only useful to people using the command
line, I think it completely appropriate...

  Is a document describing this short process desirable to have on the
wiki?

yum install -y nano
echo "set nowrap" >>/etc/nanorc
cat <<EOF >>/etc/profile.d/nano.sh
export VISUAL="nano"
export EDITOR="nano"
EOF

Dear Ed.
> ?On my systems, I set nano to be the default editor. ?Is this something
> that can be done with some sort of configuration script? ?I don't find
> anything like system-switch-mail for editors.
>
> ?I do it in my kickstart files, but it can easily be done from a
> command line. ?Since nano is only useful to people using the command
> line, I think it completely appropriate...
>
> ?Is a document describing this short process desirable to have on the
> wiki?
>
> yum install -y nano
> echo "set nowrap" >>/etc/nanorc
> cat <<EOF >>/etc/profile.d/nano.sh
> export VISUAL="nano"
> export EDITOR="nano"
> EOF
You may want to add some notes about the ability to define these
variables on per user base:

echo "export EDITOR=nano" >> ~/.bash_profile && echo
"export
VISUAL=nano" >> ~/.bash_profile

-- 
Greets
Marcus