Arch Linux

Description:

right now the only option of using any other editor for the visudo command is adding the line Default env_editor to the sudoers file, this can be done in two ways
1) using visudo (that means that you use vim, vim is not too friendly for someone who doesnt know vim and doesnt want to waste time digging in vim's help to find out that you need to type "a" to edit something and to tyoe ":wq" to save and exit, maybe knowing vim itsealf is KISS but digging everywhere to learn those basic commands so that i can use an editor i know for visudo is definatlly not KISS in any way)
2) editing with your editor, its very unsafe, a wrong syntax and sudo wont work, some admins prefer to disable root, such an act can kill a system with a disabled root..
its no too hard to use a wrong syntax, default is a word that is too simple to mispell, ad you can easily forget or not notice that you need the "d" to be capital.


man visudo gives two solutions for this problem:

1) at compile time there is an option to add editor to a list of default ones, so an editor in that list stated in the EDITOR and ENVIORMANT variables would not be used, if thats the case, then adding some popular editors like nano would be a great solution

2) at compile time you can pass an argument that will work like Defaults env_editor, if its not unsafe, then this solution will be better.

it was suggested in the #arch-linux channel on freenode that the bug may be rejected because the man page writes that the default editor for the system is vim, i hope that changing a man page with adding a little argument or two, and recompiling is not a big problem.

im sorry if its not in its place, i really think that the situation as it is violates the KISS principle (correct me if im wrong)m this is my first bug report ever so please understand :)