系统实用工具
nano
as a default terminal text editor
Up to now, Fedora has not had a default terminal text editor, because the $EDITOR
environment variable has been unset by default. Users commonly encountered a terminal text editor when using for example the git commit
command. In such situations, the git
version control system was choosing the vi
text editor which had a steep learning curve.
In Fedora 33, nano
has been set as a default terminal text editor. This change brings the following benefits to users:
-
nano
does not require specialist knowledge to use. -
nano
offers familiar graphical text editing experience. -
nano
lowers the barrier to entry for those switching to Fedora, who do not know how to usevi
. -
nano
is already installed across most Fedora Editions and Spins.
Fedora continues to install the vim-minimal
package which provides vi
but not the vim
text editor.
Users are able to call vi
to edit a file or to change the default editor from nano
to vi
or vim
.
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